LOSING PROPOSITIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17155, 4 October 1926, Page 7

LOSING PROPOSITIONS

GIRL STUDENTS' HOSTELS MINISTER'S ATTITUDE * (Special to the Herald.) CHJUSTCHUKUH, list night. That hostels for training colleges in New Zealand are not paying propositions was pointed out the the Canterbury Education Board op Saturday by the Minister of' Education, the Hon R. A. Wright. A request for Government assistance towards the cost of a hostel for women students for Christ- , church Training College was made to the Minister by Mr. E. H. Andrews. He said that one was urgently needed as the students were now being sent to Christchurch from Nelson, and as far afield as Taranaki. Auckland possessed the only training college which had its own hostel but the need was just as urgent in Christchurch. Students had difficulty in getting proper accomodation in the city, and the young people needed a place where some supervision could bo over them. The Minister replied that, no one ' would? dehy 'tho necessity for a hostel, but he wished to point out that the question of providing hostels in New Zealand was becoming serious. In the first place they were not business propositions, and mistakes had been made in the past in not making them soj- Although there was no hostel at Wellington Training College there were two private hostels which met all requirements by accomodating the women students, and at the same time were a payipg proposition. He did not think, as "regards the supervision of students, that girls of 17 and 18 years of age could be dictated to. The question of hostels was a big one, and it would be considered. .