FINGERNAILS TOO LONG
College Pupil Expelled
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE, March 25.
A Methodist lay preacher has claimed that her daughter was asked to leave the Methodist Women’s College because her fingernails were too long. The girl, Merris Hillard, aged 16, said other girls at the school wore fingernails much longer, and some wore nail polish. “As far as I know I am the only one who has been in trouble over my fingernails,” she said.
Her mother, Mrs Estelle Hillard, a Methodist lay preacher for more than 25 years, said the school’s principal (Dr. A. H. Wood) told Merris on Tuesday, that if she did not cut her nails by this morning she would have to find another school. “I take this to mean that she has been expelled,” Mrs Hillard said. “In any case she won’t be going back there. I refuse to allow her to be persecuted and bullied over such a trivial matter.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30709, 26 March 1965, Page 2
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