INTELLIGENCE OF CHILDREN
Minister’s Comment On Report
(New Zealand Press Association) GREYMOUTH, April 10.
The Minister of Education (Mr R. M. Algie) said at Greymouth that he hoped a Press Association message which reported that it had been found that Auckland schoolchildren were more intelligent than children in other parts of the Dominion was “quite wrong.” The message quoted an educationist as saying that the intelligence of children decreased progressively further southwards.
“I haven’t seen the statement referred to, and, for purely personal reasons, I hope it’s* quite wrong,” said Mr Algie. “I was born in the south, and had a whole lot of my education in Otago and Southland. I went north at post-primary school age, and I hope that I managed to hold my own with my Auckland contemporaries.
“I have since discovered that a very great number of persons in leading positions in Wellington claim to have been born in the South Island,’’ said the Minister.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28250, 11 April 1957, Page 9
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