NEW SCHOOLS IN THE NORTH
0 MINISTER OF EDUCATION TO VISIT BACKBLOCKS t The Minister of Education (Hon. C. J. Parr) will shortly undertake a comprehensive tour of the Waikato and King Country districts, which he found it necessary to defer owing to his recent visit to Australia. Next month the Minister proposes to visit the Hauraki Plains district and to open a fine new school at Hunoly, proceeding thence to Cambridge and Leamington, where advancing settlement has rendered additions to the school necessary. From there tho Minister will go to Morrinsvillo and Kiwitahi, and will open a new school at Waitoa tho same day, proceeding to via To Aioha and Paeroa, Mr. Parr will unveil a war memorial tablet at the Thames High School. Next day Mr. Parr will visit Hauraki Plains, opening a new school at Ngatea, and, going on to Auckland, ho will visit New Lynn, Swanson, Waimauku, and Papakura, where demands for more school accommodation aro being made. Later in the month the Minister will go to Te Kuiti and will accompany Mr. J. C. Rolleston, M.P., to various backblock schools m his district. Mr. Parr’s intention is to acquire first-hand knowledge of tho position, and needs of typical back-block schools in the King Country. Mr. Parr will also visit Otorohanga and Piopio, where the first “consolidated” school *in New Zealand has just been established, and where the Government is providing: as an experiment motor transport to bring some 120 children from small isolated settlements to a central school. The Minister, who is very keen on the innovation, hopes to see the consolidated school at work when he gets there. Mr. Parr has promised some time next month to perform the opening ceremony of the new High ’ School, recently finished. The Newton Central Scihool Committee has asked the Minister to formally open about the middle of February the new pnmary school at Newton, which has been built to relieve over-crowding at Newton East, Newton West, and; Grey L 7-<B' 2
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 103, 26 January 1924, Page 7
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334NEW SCHOOLS IN THE NORTH Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 103, 26 January 1924, Page 7
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