Free Kindergartens
Sir, —Now that the school age has been raised to fix years, free kindergartens have become a crying need, and I think the country could manage to renew the subsidy if some other much less-required institution were dispensed with, at least till times improve. Ou a recent trip to Wellington I paid a visit to an institution-—the Turnbull Library—for the upkeep of which the whole of New Zealand is taxed, but which is never entered by I suppose more than one in ten thousand of the taxpayers, nor even one in a thousand of the too-well-catered-for citizens of Wellington, who have the Assembly Library to resort to between sessions, in addition to the public libraries, so that it remains an almost idle luxury. Surely the number of people in Wellingtou requiring to refer to rare books in the 3’urnbull Library does .not need n staff of six to attend to them? Surely the money could be more justly devoted to subsiding kindergartens throughout New Zealand? It is not a great sum of money but it would be enough. Is it right that we should subsidise luxuries during such Huancial depression?—.l am. qtc., C.B. Masterton. April 26.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 182, 29 April 1933, Page 13
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