EDUCATION QUESTIONS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17742, 19 April 1923, Page 7

EDUCATION QUESTIONS.

(PHESS ASSOCIATION TELEGHAM.) WELLINGTON, April 18. The Wellington Education Board today discussed the question of the appointment of specialists. A .letter was read from the Education Department stating that it had had for some time under consideration the appointment of specialists in singing and drawing, but owing to the financial situation, it had been unable to do anything definite. As soon as it was practicable, special teachers would be appointed. The chairman said that the Board was quite prepared to defer the question of a singing teacher, and had agreed to refer the question to the executive with the view of endeavouring to make preliminary arrangements with respect to the appointment of a drawing master. Correspondence between the Board, the Department, and the Hospital Board was read in regard to the teaching of children patients in hospital suffering from infantile paralysis. The Minister pointed out that the children referred to were under medical treatment, and that no other Education Board had made such an application. The Board resolved that the Department should be recommended that a building to cost not more than £SOO should be erected on a site to be given gratis by the hospital authorities. The chairman pointed out that children wouid not be. allowed by the Health Department to attend an ordinary school. In reply to complaints, the chief electoral officer stated that he was quite agreed that, in the majority of cases, satisfactory arrangements could have been made to carry on the licensing poll in country school buildings without the necessity of closing the schools. In several instances in other parts of the Dominion, returning officers had co-ordinated their duties with the. headmasters of schools with excellent results.