SCHOOL MATERIALS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 45, 22 February 1923, Page 7

SCHOOL MATERIALS

PROTEST AT CURTAILMENT

1' SERIOUS AND UNFAIR."

A special meeting of the Wellington Headmasters Association, waa held last evening to discuss the position resulting from the delay iv the receipt of supplies of material for handwork for the current school yeat, and the drastic curtailment of the quantity of material to be supplied. It was pointed out that, in accordance with the request of the Education Department, head teachers throughout the district made their requisitions before the end of May, 1922. It had been ascertained that after summarising the requisitions the Education Board had sent a complete requisition for the supplies for the district to the Department in June, 1922, bui thai up to the present the board had received only three lines of material out of the thirty for which requisition had been made. The total quantity to be supplied would, it was stated, be from 25 to 100 per cent, less than was said by head teachers to b» necessary for the work.

Aftei- discussion, the meeting unini' mously adopted the following resolution:

" That the Wellington Headmasters' Association enter its strongest protest against the unsatisfactory and unbusinesslike position resulting from the Department's failure to handle the supply of material for handwork classes for 1923. 2STot only did the Department cut down the Education Board's requisition in every case from 25 per cent, to 100 per cent., but also at the present day it had delivered to the Education Board for distribution only three lines out of a total of thirty- lines. This failure is not only a serious matter For the schools, but is unfair to the board's officials whoso duty it is to distribute the material. This association feels that if, this is an example of the Education Department's ability to supply handwork material, it is very desirable that a reversion should be made to the old method of the Education Board's purchase and distribution."