SCHOOLS AND ATTENDANCES

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 35, 10 August 1921, Page 9

SCHOOLS AND ATTENDANCES

FIGUBES FOE THE PAST fEAR

"Twenty-sis schools were closed and thirty-six werefc-peneS," states the Chairman of the Wellington Education Board, Air. _T. Forsyth, in his report to the Minister of Education for the year 1920, "so that at tho end of the year tliere were in operation 256 ' schools, an increase of ten since the end of 1919. Thu average attendance and also the admission of very young children were much affected by the epidemic illness extending over a large part of the year, and the -average, 87.5 per cent., is the lowest for- many years. The following are the percentages in successive years; .1920, 87.5; 1919, 91.5; 1918, 90.0; 1917 90.6; 1916, .89.2. It was found necessary to take proceedings in 55 oases of persistent irregularity. The convictions recorded -were 45, one was dismissed, and ,th« remainder of the cases were withdrawn on condition of future regularity The board wishes to record again its opinion that legislation should be enacted imposing' a penalty on any employer of a child of school age during school hours.