VISUAL EDUCATION

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 140, 11 December 1923, Page 10

VISUAL EDUCATION

"STRONGLY RECOMMENDED."

Visual education was considered by the Wellington School Committees' Association last evening, following a letter ■ received from the Wellington Education Board, stating that the board had received a communication from the Educational Picture Company of New Zealand, conveying a modified proposal regarding the exhibition of educational films to schools. The Picture Company's letter contained a proposal to abolish individual payment, in favour of a lump sum,, to.be furnished by the school committees of the schools to be served, and in proportion to the numbers.

Mr. J. B. Hopkirk said that the Headmasters' Association had considered the scheme, 'and had come to the conclusion that the greatest difficulty was finance. The association desired to obtain\ the School Committees' Associa tion's view of the matter Mr. A.J. Wh" id

r. ite sam that the whole I thing boiled down to the fact that the children were ngt asked to pay directly, but that the committees were asked to pay at the rate of 12s 6d per 100 pupils per month. U tl i

..ne.. .motion of Mr. A. Sadd (Lyall Bay), it was decided to refer the Jetter back to the Education Board, with a strong recommendation that the board take the matter up and finance it.