USE OF TELEPHONES IN SCHOOLS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21706, 13 February 1936, Page 10

USE OF TELEPHONES IN SCHOOLS

NEED FOR THEM DEBATED

Telephones in public primary schools are provided by the Post and Telegraph Department at the residential rate, which is considerably cheaper than the business, rate, which has to be paid by secondary private schools. This information was received by the -Canterbury School Committees’ Association at its meeting last night in a letter from the Chief Postmaster -?t Christchurch, Mr F. W. Furby. The association had written to Mr Furby asking for a concession m telephone rentals, and he had referred it to the Postmaster-General, the Hon. F. Jones, who had replied that the concession of the residential rate was already granted. ■ . ■ah-i | Some delegates said that if ,;the telephone was frequently used. . by the headmaster on his private business, then he should pay part of the cost. , ~ A delegate said that the headmaster of the Woolston School had definitely refused to .allow a telephone in the school. The chairman,- Mr J. G. Brown, said , that he thought that the locality of a school to a great extent determined .its need for a telephone. Another opinion was that if telephones were installed they might be used too much by teachers in their' private business. No action was taken beyond referring Mr Furby’s letter to the school committee which had. originally asked for information about telephones. •