HOPEFUL SIGN.
GIRLS AND CAREERS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 15. “It is at \ least one hopeful sign in a land where there are not nearly enough daughters that girls from homes where there is no spur of poverty ar© being enrolled with a purpose that embraces something much more valuable than continuous days of golf and bridge,” said Miss E. v R. Edwards, headmistress of the Diocesan High School for Girls, in a review at tfie school’s speech day. At one time, she added, it was the exception for parents to say they wished their daughters to work towards some profession. “Nowadays, I am glad to say, it is only in exceptional, cases that they do not do 'so.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 15, 15 December 1937, Page 10
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120HOPEFUL SIGN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 15, 15 December 1937, Page 10
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