BRIDGING A GAP
•' View of Headmaster PLUNKET SOCIETY’S WORK “There is too great a hiatus between the time that the .work of the Plunket Society ceases and the time when a boy is ready for school,” observed Mr. 1• Martyn Renner, principal of Rongotai College, who presided at the annual meeting of the Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay branch of the Plunket Society last evening. “That gap will have to be bridged, for unless it is, a great deal of the good done by the society will be lost. Professor W. H. Gould gave an address upon the education of children, explaining the various stages' of , the child’s development, and the meaning of the features which marked each stage. He urged parents not to impose adult standards of behaviour and interest upon children, but to let them develop normally. Officers were elected as follow :— President, Lady Armstrong; vice-presi-dents, Mrs. E. B. Nees; secretary and treasurer, Mr. J. Houston; delegate to central committee, Mrs. Nees; general committee, Mesdames A. H. Prosser, G F East, R. Downie. F. W. Boyd, H. Martin, A. J. Logie, R. Semple, F. ROrwin, and B. B. Brown; committee, Mesdames R. Young, L. Bohman, J. C. Riddell, and C. J. Hackworth.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 163, 5 April 1933, Page 10
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