BACKWARD CHILDREN
NEGLECTED IN COUNTRY? (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Sunday. "The position is a tragic one—the rural children do not count," declared Mr. H. M. Rushworth (Auckland) at the annual conference of the Farmers' Union when the question of retardate children was discussed. Mr. R. Harrison (Auckland) said there was no system that gave retardate children a fair deal. He suggested that there should be travelling teachers, properly qualified, to attend to the needs of backward children in the country. Mr. Rushworth said there were thousands of children in the country suffering from some mental or physical defect. Even in the United States of America the children in the rural areas did not seem to count. In New Zealand the position was the same It was left to the Women's Division and the Women's Institute, but they could not cope with it. "It would be disgraceful if the Farmers' Union does not insist that something should be done," added Mr. Rushworth.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 170, 21 July 1941, Page 8
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