Educating Your Children

ISLANDS parents contemplating sending their children to Australia to be educated could not do better than consider the claims of the Southport Church of England schools, Queens land.

Pounded in 1912, St. Hilda’s School enrolls girls of all ages and a thorough modern edu cation in all branches is offered. There is a full course in domestic science. Art in all its branches is taught by a qualified mistress. There are classes in drawing, painting, commercial art. pottery, weaving, raffia-work, etc. French is taught throughout the school, and diction, literature, history, and geography are given special attention. The School is a member of the Girls’ Secondary Schools’ Association, and the girls compete with the leading Brisbane schools in all sports.

On the banks of the Nerang River, the South port School for boys challenges comparison with

any other public school in the British Empire as a group of buildings in an ideal setting. The central dormitory block satisfies every require ment 0 f modern hygiene, with cool, airy rooms, wlde verandahs and great height. There is also an open a ir gymnasium and a block of modern classrooms. The school has been organised on English Public School lines, with three separate “houses” which compete with each other in all sports. Prefects and dormitory captains are chosen each year, and learn valuable lessons in leadership and responsibility. A good moral tone has always been maintained, and every boy learns the fundamental lessons of honesty, decency, good manners, and fair play. „ , . a , T

Captain Gilbert Symons, M.C., who

was A.D.C. to the late Sir Eyre Hutson during his term as Governor of Fiji from 1925 to 1929, died recently in Eng land.