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Rh in all its usual details, Arithmetic, Writing, Book-keeping, Drawing and Gymnastics.

The Otago Boys' High School was opened on August 3rd, 1863. About a week afterwards (August 11th) an ably-written leading article on the subject appeared in the Otago Daily Times. After dealing with the subject of the Boys' School in a very appreciative manner, the writer proceeds as follows:—"The High School, however, wants a companion institution. There is one direction in which we have attempted little and done less to promote the best interests of education and of families. We mean in the provision made for the education of girls, especially after they have arrived at an age when it is untasteful to their friends and obviously unwise that they should remain in the mixed common school." Then follow some well-put arguments in support of the proposal to establish a Girls' High School, and the article concludes as follows:—"It is to be hoped that a High School for girls will be promptly organised in Dunedin." A day or two afterwards, a letter appeared in the Daily Times over the signature "Paterfamilias," thanking the editor for his sensible and well-timed article, and suggesting that pressure should be brought to bear upon the Government to take steps for the establishment of the proposed school with the least possible delay. This was the first occasion on which the proposal to establish a Girls' High School in Dunedin was publicly discussed, and it is only due to the Otago Daily Times that this fact should not be lost sight of. But before and after the publication of the article referred to, the subject received careful consideration from the education authorities, and it was fully resolved that a Girls' High School should be established as soon as the difficulties that interposed should be removed, the chief of these being inability to procure a suitable site and building for the purpose. In the Provincial Council on November 4th, 1864, Major Richardson moved the following resolution, of which notice had previously been given by Mr Reynolds—(1) "That it is expedient to give encouragement to the education of girls beyond that afforded by the ordinary district schools; and (2) that the Government be