NEW SECONDARY SCHOOLS
PROGRESS ON BUILDING PROGRAMME
The tempo of secondary school building would have to be stepped up, the Minister of Education (Mr R. M. Algie) said yesterday at the Avonside Girls’ High School.
Of the 93 new post-primary schools that had to be built in New Zealand between 1950 and 1965, 23 had so far been completed, said Mr Algie. The number of schools completed did not represent a third of the total aimed at, he said, but planning was now better than it had been, and it took less time. Contractors were still needed in plenty, and workers in hundreds. In the next three or four years, 2200 extra post-primary school teachers would be needed, Mr Algie said. It was no use telling teachers that it was a great and noble profession, unless they were given the wherewithal to be noble. They had to receive reasonable remuneration, and they had to be, kept in the picture socially. “I think it is wrong if we do not enjoy .the company of our teachers in our homes,” said Mr Algie. “I want to see them elevated in our affections and social life.”
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27679, 8 June 1955, Page 6
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