WELLINGTON GIRLS’ COLLEGE.
FREE PLACE GIRLS TO BE ADMITTED. (Per Press Association.' WELLINGTON, August 27. The important question of the admission of ; free place pupils to the Wellington Girls’ College, which lias been refused by the Board of Governors, was settled to-day. A deputation of citizens attended to make representations, but the Board decided to discuss the question before receiving the deputation. The chairman, Mr. A. Deß, Brandon, moved resolutions to admit free place gi rls at the Boys’College and t o appoint a female teacher. The Hon. Dr. Findlay moved an amendment that the Board agree to receive free place girls at the Girls’ College to the extent of any existing vacant accommodation and of any further accommodation provided by the Government under section 10 of the Education Act, .1908. The amendment was carried, and the deputation was informed that their wishes had been acceded to. Subsequently, when the Board was in committee, it is ' understood that Mr. Brandon resigned the chairmanship of the Board. in the course of discussion, Dr. Findlay said the spirit of the legislation, as he understood it, was that it should be another step towards the removal of that species of class distinction which every democracy attempted to get rid of. If the Board would not adopt his amendment, the-Government would provide all the further accommodation which might be necessary. This matter of the Government giving higher education to the most promising children of poorer people was one of the cardinal aims of the Government.
Mr. Brandon said he regretted Dr. Findlay’s remarks. There were certain members of the community who had their own traditions, and no amount of democracy would wipe out those traditions. In his opinion the stability of anv nation depended, not upon the mere extent of its education, but absolutely upon its traditions and the traditions of the family. To do away with those traditions they had a mere struggle existence —no nation and no family.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2592, 28 August 1909, Page 5
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326WELLINGTON GIRLS’ COLLEGE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2592, 28 August 1909, Page 5
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