TIMARU GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16612, 22 August 1918, Page 6

TIMARU GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL.

Tv*. the Editor of thp. "Timaru ITerr.ld." S&r, —Visiting your town afrtv an abH'. niv- of some years, > have been struct with: jSjj irrmvth ui mairyv ways.' Anion; 1 ; filter things, ■education lias mario much jjrogrsss'■ si»ir-o' my. tiiirb-. - " As a. selioc.'-

girl T v.'n-, a pupil of the Timari Girls'" I High School in the d.iys when boys and I g 'lis vjcro nnd3r tile one roof. , Now tJ;o 3?oys' High So-hottl is- oiu> of the ■.veil provided schools of the ;lo;nin'<i;i —;i fine rectory, . good playing fields, and splendid UTviimriuig batJi.\ But why I doss the girls'* school 'as*' bchin«l? Is it impossible for'a* liostcl. to bo erected iy the school ground"-- ? 1 an< told iliac'there is a rented 'now used -os a hostel, but t?mt' *•.».* r._ccommc-3a-iion. was • uracil overtaxed in its first 1 ve-r that sineo r hen 'iccoremodation has to bo found here and there for the girls who persist in com in jr. though r.o ii liuitiful and spacious rectal y awaits thorn, and that yes no >aovo is made by the Board towi-ds building. I note too that there is evidently no srcit lack of money. sircc- a. desire of the rect-or to increase tlit V>cys' accommodation mot with -in enthusiastic reception from the Bonvd. Now, S'.r, T 'am t-ho mother of little girls and may shortly wish to send them to the lnyiut'ful climate of Timaru for the 1scbooiing. Shall Ibe debarred from do ng- so by want •of Ji-eonimo-elation? Beliove jno if, n>-- >vns said at t|i_<i 'Board, the. boys' school hit;? a do--3111:1:011 refutation, if is only the want of enterprise of tl: c Br-ard that holds the girls' • school;back from the same happy fortune.—l am, etc., AN EX-GIEL 01? TiTE T-Q.IIS