All white meeting
The Minister of Education (Mr Amos) issued a mild reproach to delegates attending the inaugural conference in Christchurch the New Zealand Specific Learning Difficulties Association. “The first thing 1 noticed,” Mr Amos said “was the fact that the audience here is 100 per cent non-Polynesian.”
This was surprising. Mr I Amos said, when many Poly- ; nesian children experienced : specific learning difficulties. His own experience of be- ; ing a teacher for 20 years had shown him that Polynes- ’ ian children did have special [learning problems.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33817, 14 April 1975, Page 22
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