Educating Islands Girls
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AN excellent Church of England School for Islands girls is St. Hilda’s School, South port, Queensland, which receives pupils from the age of five upwards.
General teaching is entirely in the hands of graduates under the Principal, Miss Fittock, B.A.
Training in the art of speech is undertaken by Miss Nerva Levy, formerly of the staff of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London; Miss J.
Robeson, who had 7 years’ training at the Art Gallery School in Melbourne, is in charge of the Art School; while Miss Betty Samuel, a graduate of the Chelsea Physical Training College, London, teaches gymnastics, classical dancing, ball-room dancing, swimming, and sports.
The school building is modern in design with lofty, airy rooms, and there are 30 acres of ground on which are tennis and netball courts. The School has had a remarkable health record, and special care is taken of delicate girls. Reserva tions for 1937 are now being made, and parents who desire to enter pupils are advised to make early application.*** Sister Hettie Muir, who has been ap pointed to the Methodist Mission Hospital at Salamo, Papua, will sail from Sydney by the Macdhui on September 30.