GIRLS' COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 108, 8 May 1923, Page 8

GIRLS' COLLEGE

■ The Mayor, Mr. E. A. Wright, M.P., will preside at the meeting to be held at the Chamber of Commerce to-morrow evening to discuss the necessity to make additional provision within the city for the secondary education of girls. The Wellington Girls' College is probably the largest, if not, one of the largest, institutions of its kind in Australia and New Zealand. The. attendance has consistently increased, and the accommodation provided has always been short of requirements. From time to time additions have been made, and the grounds slightly extended., but quite without regard to the requirements of the future. The result is that almost 800 rirls are accommodated on an area under two acres in extent, and in class rooms, some of which are quite of a tenrporarv character. That the school has been able to accomplish co much under such adverse conditions is very much to its 'credit. There is, however, a strong feeling that an effort should be made to bring; pressure to bear upon the authorities to proceed with the erection of the new college, which has already been approved of.