GIRLS POSE AS PARENTS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 11 September 1930, Page 7

GIRLS POSE AS PARENTS

ILUAN ON A HOYS’ SCHOOL

A remarkable hoax was recently perpetrated by two schoolgirls at Newcastle, England. The girls are .students of a. wellknown secondary school, and the hoax consisted of “making up’’ beyond their age and posing as modern parents. In this guise they visited a hoys’ secondary school, ostensibly for the purpose oi “placing their children.” They had an interview with an oflicia) and discussed details for half-an-hour

I t was the “parents’ ” hope, so it. was stated, to he shown round the school and to gaze on the sixth form hoys with patronising air, but in this respect they failed. Otherwise they carried off their plans successfully. The names of the fictitious new students were duly entered and the “parents” were courteously shown out.

Then came misfortune, for just outside the school the two girls came face to face with their headmistress, who immediately penetrated their disguise and duly elicited the full story.

Explanations followed, and fortunately for the girls the authorities concerned were willing to forgive the joke, bat future escapades of similar character, are not likely to be so lightly regarded.