MANY SCHOOLS BUILT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 59, 11 March 1926, Page 9

MANY SCHOOLS BUILT.

SIX YEARS OF PROGRESS. SATISFACTION OF MINISTER. Reference to the distinct fillip that secondary education in New Zealand had received during the six years he had been Minister of Education was made this afternoon by Sir James Parr at Mount Albert. "More schools, and more high schools have been erected than at any other period," he observed. "The country child has been specially catered for. District high schools have been established in many progressive centres and there are now about sixty of these schools in the Dominion. 'These hi<*h schools, which have been linked up to the primary departments will henceforth be inspected by the secondary inspectors and the teachers graded on the same system as "the regular grammar school teachers." When Sir James took office in 1920 the emoluments of high school teachers were almost wretched pittances, he said, compared with the national importance of their work; but this evil had been remedied and the salaries greatly improved, with the result that there was to-day no finer body of men and women in New Zealand than the teachers of our post-primary institutions.