Suggests Hostel For 100 Girls

Northern Advocate, 18 June 1947, Page 6

Suggests Hostel For 100 Girls

To the new Minister of Health (Miss M. B. Howard), a suggestion has been made by Mr N. P. Pitcaithly that a hostel to accommodate 100 girls be built in Kaikohe in conjunction with the intended erection of a maternity hospital.

The college now was capable of talcing more than 90 boys but no girls, Mr Pitcaithly said. There was urgent need for a hostel for girls.

Mr Pitcaithly informed the committee of management at its meeting here last night of the action he had taken. His suggestion was that a hostel for 100 girls should be built on an existing 14-acre education board reserve in Kaikohe in conjunction with the construction of the maternity hospital,

which was to be on an 11 acre property less than a quarter mile away. He proposed that the hostel should have a junor section for girls receiving their preliminary secondary education at the college, particularly in the homecrafts course, also a senior section where the girls could start maternity training, or even a full general nursing training. "I feel there is an almost untapped supply of material for the nursing service in the college, but this supply needs to be kept under strict discipline during the training period,” he added.

Mr Pitcaithly offered his congratulations to Miss Howard upon her elevation to Cabinet rank. He dispatched his leter only this week and no reply has been possible as yet.