SECONDARY SCHOOL FEES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 43, 20 February 1929, Page 8

SECONDARY SCHOOL FEES.

PI.EA FOR ABOUTIOR. REVISED SCALE APPROVED. Divergent views on the question J land Education Board this morning of M? H °! iU ° n T aS the *"SWtk. i , u e, who sald country pare B u would be relieved of a burdened though small, was appreciable in ™**Z- The desire to take full .d«n£ of the in struct ion available could, m hi, opinion, be relied upon to ensure a ntii factory standard of work. Removal of the present barrier dhidmg free place from paying pupil* mil considered by Mr. T. U. Wells to I* undesirable. He said the standard «f efficiency would be adversely affected if the stimulus towards free secondare education on a basis of satisfactory primary performance were interfered with. The Edueat'on Department stated that, in view of the school year heijij now divided into three terms, iwteid of quarters, it was necessary to rev»*» the .<ca!e of fees for other than He fres place pupils and it was proposed ij make the fee £1 a tenu, reducible tq 15/. Further, it was stated that tit corresponding fee payable in eecondtry schools was £4, reducible to £3 10/, fcni ill view of the fact that so few pupils pay fees in district high schools, it wji not proposed to bring the fee into Use with those of secondary schools. The revised scale was approved.