Educating Papuan Girls
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AS a result of mission educational work among Papuan girls, their mental power is equal to that boys, stated Rev. Harold Short, L.M.S. missionary of Papua, at a meeting at the. Congrega tional Assembly Hall, Sydney, in April.
The mission schools prepared the chil dren for an examination in English con ducted by a member of the Queensland Education Department. In these exami nations, said Mr. Short, the percentage of passes by girls was high.
He praised Miss E. M. Riley, an educa tional worker from New South Wales, for her excellent work among Port Moresby children. The Papuan girls’ learning, however, concluded Mr. Short, was lost later on among the mundane jobs of housework and gardening, which were the only avenues open to them at present.