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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20419, 14 December 1931, Page 17

• "The world' buttons up its. coat in fear whqn changes in the monetary system are suggested,?' Dr. J. W. McJlraitli, senior inspector of schools, tola.' the members of the Wellington Education Board, when making a plea for% moro attention to be paid to the social sci<ncec, as compared with the physical sciences. "Wo have students ill nbuiidanco for the physical sciences, paid nr. Mcllraith, but it wis a an® 8 "®" whether the educational system should not put more stress upon the, social sciences. The world accepted ever? new invention, but wanted a tthich would listen to the advice _ experts in the social and economic sciences. The absolute necessity _ for schools and tho University to be closer toucl» in respect to the ™atric la'tion examination was stressed by headmistress of the. Auckland High School for Girls, Miss E. Sand fora, last week. "'Eash year, «i we brine our girls up to the test, the dif faculties and weaknesses of this examinatfon in its double function as B ity entrance and school-leaving examination are brought home to site eaid. ' The length of the papers themselves meant a piojong , , strain, to which she thoughtthat frirl' of 16 should be submitted. une fltiL of the pr°%m, had b f « c " »"f" cested by the •Association oi Hwid masters and-Headmistresses « In"*nondent Schools at their annual conferSee last May? That, conference had T j-oposed that a schools ?^mmatio^ SKte^s e of"tho something. iji this direction should be doi . ob soon as possible.