SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 247, 18 October 1922, Page 5

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

AND FEBRUARY HOURS. j DECISION'S BY THE BOARD. The primary eehool*' holidays for i'iu | forthcoming end of the year ami for tin- j middle of nuxt year were derided l»y I lie j Education Board to-day. The I'hrUUa.is holidays will start on Thursday. Deeem- ' her 21, and the schools will take up again on Tuesday, February ti. For the mid-rear holidays tlie schools are to have one week in May. stnrtinjr .May 14, «nd two weoks later, from August -7 to .Septeml>er 10. A long took place mi the ijuesfion «.f havinj; the school hours shortened during February, the opinion being expressed that the Board should; decide (he matter now in view of what had happened last year, when the Mount | Albert School wa* kept at full t hue j when the other town schools were on i uliort hour*. Eventually the Koanl! decided that the schools in tin- Auckland ! tnWan ari»a (wltidi excludes such schools as Mount Roakill and Otahuhii) shall I obnervv Dip shorter hours, and that in die Hamilton urban area the full hours shall he worked. With authority bring permit tod thp hoedmastev and counnittee chairniHn of each school to shorten the | school day in Kelivuary at their discre- j tfoil. Ree|H>Cting cotinlry schools the Board decided that the 'full hours he \ worked in February, with a proviso that | tlie -(clioole fomiuit tvee have power to i decide otherwise in particular cases. \