SCHOOL BOARDERS AND THE RAILWAY RESTRICTIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 173, 19 August 1919, Page 6

SCHOOL BOARDERS AND THE RAILWAY RESTRICTIONS

WAITAKI HIGH SCHOOL DIFFICULTIES. (United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Railway restrictions as they apply to boarding schools were referred (to to-night by Mr F. Milner, rector of the Waitaki Boys’ High School. He pointed out ed to return home for ( the vacation, bur permits to travel could not be obtained, notwithstanding that he had made represenations |to the Railway authorities ithat/ such ‘gravelling was essential though perhaps not for corn-/ mercial reasons. They could nqt be kept ari school owing to the terms of ocntiact with the teaching and domestic dfeffs, which provided that they were ,to be released during vacation. The difficulty had been got over in Regard t'o many southern boys by parents taking (them off in motors, while others had sqt out _ for their homes on push cycles. Thirty Auckland <boys had been motored (to Dunedin and [had succeeded in securing berths in (the Mokora, but many Wellington boys who had gone down on a similar mission had been shut out. In other cases boys had been motored to Christchurch and travelled north in ferry steamers. Mr Milner said tha| once the boys arrived in Canterbury they were much better treated by the railway officials and where t|huy desired* were permitted to travel by rail on payment of the *■ '' fare. He had communicated this fact jto the failway aid’hoii'ies- m Dun,, edin. but received a reply that such conditions were not being adopted in Otago, and if he placed any boarder from the schcol aboard a tram a prv secutibn would follow. “We have had a ven- bad week indeed,” concluded Mr Milner, “but the big majority of the (boarders have gone. The nexf question will be, How are we going ■to get them back?”