SCHOOL AGE

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21147, 24 April 1934, Page 4

SCHOOL AGE

The Canterbury Trades and Labour Council has received from the Minister for Education (the Hon. R. Masters, M.L.C.) a reply to its suggestion that the law should be amended to allow five-year-olds to enter school again. The Minister wrote that the suggestion would receive his careful consideration, but that he could see little hope of its being adopted. In making its proposal the Trades and Labour Council urged that reopening the schools to five-year-olds would provide work at regular salaries for many teachers now on the rationing scheme. An interesting collection of native implements and weapons from Rennel Island, in the Northern Solomons, has been deposited in the Auckland War Memorial Museum by Mr C. Sarich, of Thames. Rennel Island is inhabited by people of mixed Melanesian and Polynesian blood, but Polynesian in culture, as is evident from the articles in the musum. A finely-carved bone point of a Maori pigeon spear has been presented by Mr W. R. Broughton, of Rotorua. The point is one of a set of 40 discovered some 40 years ago at Whatatutu, Poverty Bay. The set! became dispersed, but 12 of the j points are now in the possession of the Auckland Museum. Their design and workmanship suggest that all! were the work of one man. I

The Eleventh Olympic Gaines, to be held in Berlin in 1936, will be closed with the performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. This will fulfil the wish of Baron de Coubertin. founder and honorary president of the Olympic Games, who sees in this work, with its "Ode to Joy" calling for brotherhood among all nations, the most fitting close to these great international contests.