The Difference

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28747, 19 November 1958, Page 17

The Difference

It was to be hoped that business-' ! men who were now asking that girls spend longer at school would! request “three years at a high [standard of work and industry.” not merely, “three years at sec- 1 : • ondary school.” Miss M. J. Riley,! [headmistress of the Wellington: ! East Girls’ College, told the I college board. Girls were finding it rather more difficult to •secure positions to their liking, said Miss Riley. “Several girls I who had intended leaving at the end of their second year have found they cannot get positions in offices and businesses of their [choice unless they have had [three years at college.” But itj was of little use for business •houses to tell the girls to do ani other year at college and then [they would accept them. The girls iwere deciding to do the extra [year at school, certainly, but they were just as likely to go back to college and waste a whole year filling in time, she said.—(P.A.)

Impending Apology.— The Belgian Nobel Peace prize winner, | Father Georges Pi re, was mis-' i takenly arrested by police as a j hold-up suspect on Friday, Bel-! igian newspapers quoted by the] I American Associated Press reported today. Father Pire was in] ia car which stopped near an [abandoned vehicle which was beiing watched by police after three 'men killed a bank employee and I got away with about £2000. | Brussels. November 16.