VICTORIA HOUSE

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 111, 3 February 1934, Page 15

VICTORIA HOUSE

Women Students’ Hostel It will interest all parents of the Wellington University girl students who must board away from home during’term time to learn that Victoria House, 282 The Terrace, is ready to receive applications for accommodation. This hostel for women students is undenominational, and is under the supervision of a strong council, who take a personal Interest in its administration. It is pleasantly situated within five minutes’ walk of the university and close to the city, and was built with the special requirements of students in view. Twenty-two students can be provided with single bedrooms and double studies, and there is a common room where friends may be entertained, a dining-room, and plenty of bathrooms both upstairs and down. The bedrooms are comfortable, and excellent judgment has been shown throughout in the furnishing and decoration, which is cheerful and simple. Students provide their own house-linen, and though a certain amount of laundry work is undertaken by the house staff, the use of the laundry is granted to students at the discretion of the warden. All rules are sensible, and have been wisely made. Miss Murison, the warden, is eminently suited to the position, for she has a fine record of work among girls. Nga Tawa School and Wellington Girls’ College both knew her splendid influence and wise household direction before she came to the Women Students’ Hostel Society five years ago. The kitchen arrangements provide for good home cooking, which, together with the housework, will be carried out under Miss Murison’s direction by a staff on whom she has relied for several years. The hostel provides accommodation for visiting students at times when tournaments, etc., are being held, and as the terms are extremely moderate, it is a great advantage to the visitors to make their arrangements accordingly.

The officers elected in December were as follow: —‘President, Mrs. Adamson ; vice-president, Mrs. Hansell; treasurer, Dr. Agnes Bennett; secretary, Mrs. Evans, Other members of the council include Miss Baber, Mrs. Coleridge, Mrs. Elliott, Mrs. Earle, Mrs. Shirer, Mrs. GUI, Mrs. Strong. This hostel was begun twenty-five years ago at the instance of Mrs. Wallis, wife of Bishop Bennett, and other women who saw the necessity for a good hostel for women students, and throughout all these years it has been a pleasant home, and a great benefit to hundreds of students. It is hoped now that the hostel has been made even more comfortable and pleasant than formerly, that the 22 rooms will soon be occupied, and the council will bo relieved from anxieties, monetary and otherwise.