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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24981, 16 September 1946, Page 6

The lack of suitable accommodation and building materials was the main problem facing education in the Dominion, said the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon, P. Fraser) addressing the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Boards’ Association in Wellington. It was not a question of finance, he said. Money alone could not build schools.. He urged members of the association to combine with other education associations and the Department of Education to co-operate with the Government in providing a solution to the present problems. Mr Fraser said it was the object of New Zealand’s education system to provide, under the Pest possible circumstances, the fullest training to enable young people to live up to the responsibilities of the Dominion.—(P.A.) A decline in juvenile delinquency is noted in the annual report of Mr C. E. Peek, Child Welfare Superintendent, in his annual report, tabled in the House of Representatives. Jbe lessening of war tension, the Tetum of fathers from military duties, the work of visiting teachers,'and intensified preventive work, are suggested as reasons for the decline in the number of appearances in the Children’s Court. The report says the total numbers of appearances for all offences during the last three years have been:—l943-44. 2493; 1944-45, 2012; 1945-46, 1786.— (F.0.P.R.)