Petition On Cost Of School Clothes
(New Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON, May 27.
A petition asking for a limit on expenditure on school uniforms was submitted to Parliament today by Mr C. J. Moyle (Opp., Manukau).
The petition—presented on behalf of Mrs Blanche Bongard Winn, of Mangere, Auckland, and 19 others—asked Parliament to take “appropriate action to limit the expenditure demanded of parents by boards for school uniforms.”
The petition said that some State schools “have excluded children from school if parents have declined to provide caps, gloves or panama hats, or have forbidden children to accept ‘lost property’ garments. whereas pupils zoned to other State schools are permitted to attend without these accessories.” It said that parents have no right of appeal except to the individual boards, and that in 1963 the compulsory investment by parents in accessories alone was more than £lOO,OOO.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30762, 28 May 1965, Page 3
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