The New Education

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 260, 30 July 1937, Page 13

The New Education

Sir, —Free, secular, and compulsory education has functioned in New Zealand since 1877. Various innovations have subsequently been introduced into the original system with an appreciative effect. The cost to the taxpayers of all the facilities is £3,250,670 per annum. To-day the system enables boys and girls of the necessary mental and physical calibre to pass from the primary school to the university by way of free places, scholarships, and bursaries. An additional Wellington province provision for supplementing the available scholarships should be supplied from the Macarthv Trust Estate. What prevents the board of management of that benchcient trust, which includes grants for educational purposes, from instituting “T. G. Maenrthy Scholarships ? frequently it is stilted that the economic arrangements of Now Zealand cause university graduates to seek other countries for'lucrative employment. Is that I he crowning result of the t axpayers providing the means of education, or 111) ludividuul ethical Lower Hutt. July 22.