AID TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS
COMMITTEES REAFFIRM OPPOSITION
Opposition to State aid for private schools was reaffirmed by the Canterbury School Committees’ Association last evening, and it will ask its members to state its views to all their associates.
“I wonder if you have noticed the great battle which is now being put up by a certain section of the community to get State aid ton private schools?” asked Mr R. *Clpridge ,/§enior Vicepresident) at the annual meeting. “A tremendous amount of money is being poured into advertising, people- are reading rather glowing statements about private schools, but they are not getting the crux of the matter." Taxpayers should not sit- back ahd see public funds, how provided for all State schools, being diverted to a section of schools which did not serve the whole community, Mr Claridge said The Dominion Federation of School Committees would watch the interests i of members when the matter came before the special Parliamentary comI mittee. but every member should make a point of speaking on this issue to those of his friends who did not think too deeply.
“We have now got to become an active body in this matter," said Mr Claridge. The association’s long-standing support for free secular education was reaffirmed unanimously without discussion.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27988, 7 June 1956, Page 12
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