UNITED BOARDS.
POST-PRIMARY SCHOOLS,
AN ADVANTAGEOUS SYSTEM.
MR T. B. STRONG'S VIEWS
(Special to "The Guardian.") CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. "Both the Minister for Education (the Hon. H. Atmore) and the Education Department realise the importance of technical education to primary and secondary industries, and there is not the slightest risk of technical education suffering through amalgamations," says the, Director of Education (Mr T. B. Strong), yesterday, referring to proposals for the amalgation of Technical School and High School Boards. . .
Mr Strong has attended meetings in Ashburton, where the amalgamation of the Ashburton High School with the Technical School was discussed. The High School Board, he said, was in favour of the amalgamation, but the Technical School Board could not support the proposal at the present time. He had given reasons, he said, showing why amalgamation would further the interests of economy and efficiency) and also the interests of the pupil. The proposals were for the amalgamation of post-primary schools in the smaller centres of population, and in Hamilton the two Boards were in complete agreement on. the merits of the scheme, and it had already been brought about in Nelson, New Plymouth, and Napier. There was no risk of a submergence of technical education in academic interests under the amalgamation system.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 261, 18 August 1931, Page 5
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