EDUCATION LOANS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 145, 16 December 1926, Page 8

EDUCATION LOANS

PROPOSAL BY HEADMISTRESS

GIVING THE SCHOLARS i. CHANGE

{By Ttligriph.) (Special to "The Evwiiiti Po»t."> AUCKLAND, This Day.

The fact that many deserving primary school pupils are debarred by lack of financial means from entering secondary schools was referred, to by. the headmistress of the Auckland Girls'. Grammar School, Miss E. Jit. Johnston* at the prize-giving ceremony yesterday. She also remarked that, of those who did enter the secondary schbols, too many,left before the end of their second year, and sometimes' before the. end of their first year, to follow.'.'f blind alley" occupations. •..'',- Miss Johnston added:' "We are told that the country is spending as .much on education as it can afford, buti on« wonders that the institution of a loan fund for deserving secondary school pupils and University students has not commended itself to the Treasury and Education Department as a possible solution of the problem. From such a fund pupils and students might, under proper guarantees, borrow such sums ps would enable them to continue their until thfiy are fitted to follow a useful profession or occupation. " This would help considerably to prevent a wastage that there is bound to be when pupils are forced,, as too manyot them are, under the .present conditions into uncongenial'ti unsuitable occupations."