DOMESTIC SCIENCE NEGLECTED
GIRLS PREFER COMMERCIAL STUDIES.. With a Toll number just short of 200, the Feilding Agricultural High School now attracts pupils from such points as Dargaville, Waitara and Wairoa. In reporting to a meeting of tho Board of Managers on Wednesday right, the principal (Mr. L. J. Wild) mentioned that only six of the new girls enrolled were taking the homo science course. The school, he thought; had reached its maximum Toll. Mr. A. J. Kellow asked whether the number of girls taking the home science course was considered satisfactory. Mr. Wild did not think so. Taking the figures for the commercial courses (21) they showed a tendency to decline. There would always be a comparitively largo number taking the commercial course, as it was an examination course. Girls taking commercial studies generally fook some time to find out that their real inclination was towards domestic science and then they turned from commercial studies. Mr. A. J. Kellow felt that the schools wc-rc producing too many typists and girl clerks. In reply to Mr. W. W. Andrews, who wanted to know how the position was to be avoided, Mr. Kellow said that efforts should be directed towards attracting girls towards their proper sphere of training .
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6843, 22 February 1929, Page 5
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207DOMESTIC SCIENCE NEGLECTED Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6843, 22 February 1929, Page 5
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