SCHOOL SUPPLIES

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 134, 22 February 1923, Page 4

SCHOOL SUPPLIES

CURTAILMENT OF MATERIAL DEPARTMENT’S ACTION CRITICISED The position resulting from the delay in receiving supplies of material for handwork for the current school year and the drastic curtailment of the quantity of material to ba supplied wore questions considered in committee by tho AVellington Headmasters’ Association at a special meeting last night. At the conclusion of the business, a Dominion’ reporter was informed tl at it had been pointed out that, in aocordanco with the request of the Education Department, head teachers throughout the district made their requisitions before the end of May, 1922 It had been ascertained that after summarising them the Education Board had forwaidod a complete requisition for the supplies for the district to the Department in June, 1922, but that up to the present the board had reorived only three lines of material out of the thirty requisitioned for. lhe total quantity to be supplied would, it was stated, be very much less than was said by head teachers to be necessary f<> r to® > v . ork - „ „ After discussion, the meeting unanimously adopted the following resolution : — , „ , , > “That the AVellington Headmasters Association enter its strongest protest against the unsatisfactory and unbusinesslike position resulting from the Departments failure to handle the supply of material for handwork classes for 19z3 Not only did the Department cut down the Education Board’s requisition in every case from 25 per cent, to 100 ner cent., but also at the present day it had delivered to the Education Board for distribution, only three lines out of a total of thirty lines. Ibis failure is not only a serious matter for the schools, but is unfair to the board’s officials whose duty it is to distribute the material.. This association feels that if this is an example of the Education Department, s ability to supply handwork material it is very desirable that a Reversion shou!d be made to the old method of the Mucation Board’s purchase and distribution.” .