SCHOOL COMMITTEES ASSOCIATION.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 5534, 4 October 1929, Page 2

SCHOOL COMMITTEES ASSOCIATION.

FORMATION TO BE CONSIDERED

TO-DAY.

At its last meeting- the Akaroa District 'High School Committee received' the following- letter from Mr M. J. Foley, Chairman 1 of the Pigeon Bay school, and delegates were appoint ad to meet at Duva.ucheJ-le today to consider the matter. The letter is as follows :— ''At its last ordinary meeting' the Pigeon Bay School Committee considered a proposal to institute a Banks Peninsula School Committee' Association, and T am directed' by my Committee to circularise the other Committees on the Peninsula, in order that the general feeling towards the proposal may be ascertained. In general, the purposes of such an Association' would be — (a) To support the policy of individual Committees in 'matters of common interest. (b) To bring Committees into closer co-operative relationship. I would point out to your coiivnittee that, as yet, nowhere in New Zealand dees such a. body exist, although the time is surely opportune. The school syllabus is undergoing reconstruction; open air schools are in their infancy; the desirability of junior high schools is being considered; and' we are even in some cases being offered consolidated country schools; and lastly, we, 011 the Peninsula, are still without a dental clinic.

It must be obvious that the time has come when l organised opinion from the country people on these and other matters must make for greater progress and efficiency, and increased stability in> our schools, and, after all in making this progressive move we are but keeping pace with our city brethren."