CHILD INSTRUCTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 15

CHILD INSTRUCTION.

(To tie' Editor.) Sir,' —Are both our Health Department and our educational authorities "Wnf Why is there at our Winter Exhibition no' attractive and instructive Health Court to I .,which children from all our schools, eari be taken, and learn through the* seeing'eye what will never be so well assirijiiate'd when tediously taught from booits*? . Dunedin and Wellington are Showing" ris the' way; why must Auckland lag .behindif .IS mote progressive countries health film! are f"e"gularly shown in the schools to make the hygiene teaching more practical a_d living.- It is of little use to' preach "fresh air" to the school children; however, when* for all the best hours ot daylight arid suhsWrie we* shut them up in stuffy/ overcrowded buildings, from which the life-giving ultra-violet rays are carefully exciu_e_ by glass and concrete. These .will he brit df date in a few tiiney but iheariwMle we should be replacing them' by open-air schools of the bringalow" type, very much cheaper, and,*_ic_ givfi 15 to 2_ per cent better ie'-uiisv -dental as well as'physical. There are five of these in the South Island, so that again thejr are showing the way in this matter.—l arii, etc., MEDICO.