Adaptation Valued

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30739, 1 May 1965, Page 2

Adaptation Valued

By giving children the opportunity to learn to adapt themselves at an early age, the Christchurch Free Kindergarten Association was doing a social work that was absolutely necessary, said the Mayor (Mr Manning) at the association’s recent annual meeting. “We are bringing our children into a changing world in which they will have some very severe problems to face,” he said. “The more help they are given in training to face them and in learning to adapt to changing conditions the better.” Background Kindergarten laid the foundations for helping them to take their place in society and for developing their full personalities. It was one of the most valuable backgrounds children could be given, he said. Mr Manning presided at

the meeting and congratulated the association on the contribution it was making to a “pool of assistance for children.”

Miss Anne Johnson, director of the Trengrove Kindergarten showed slides of kindergartens she visited in Australia recently, after attending a conference of the Australian Pre-school Association in Brisbane. Council Elected

Mrs A. K. Hadfield was reelected patron of the association and the following members of the council were elected:—Mesdames S. Barton, N. F. Bartram, M. G. Brown, A. V. Butcher, C. J. S. Cocks, A. J. D. Dearsley, J. Hitchings, S. A. Hunt, N. E. Larcombe, L. McCormick, A. M. Steven, S. A. Sullivan, E. J. Thompson and G. R. Whales; Messrs J. H. M. Dawson, O. C. Mitchell, N. R. Searell, R. J. Stubberfield, C. L. Sugden and M. M. Toomer.