Education spending

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32568, 30 March 1971, Page 16

Education spending

Sir, —V. F. Wilkinson seems I to doubt the concern of, teacher groups over possible cuts in education spending. Although not named among the “chief teacher organisations” by your correspondent, the New Zealand Teachers* Colleges Association reiterates the anxiety expressed some weeks ago by our national president, Mr Di Cohen. Perhaps primary school libraries, one of the likely areas for economies in government spending, are classed by Mr Wilkinson and Mr Brewer among the gadgetry and gimmickry of “new” education. I recall that at the lunch-hour meeting organised by the Christchurch Teachers’ College Students’ Association there was full support’ for the students’ agitation from the Canterbury branch of N.Z.E.I. expressed by their president, Mr D. Stewart, in person, and from the Canterbury region of N.Z.P.P.T.A. in a telegram read at the meeting. If Mr Wilkinson is still

not satisfied that teacher groups share the students' concern, I hope branches of N.Z.E.I. and N.Z.P.P.T.A will speak for themselves —Yours, etc., TREVtYN W. TURNER, President, Christchurch branch, N.Z.T.C.A. March 28, 1971.