LYTTELTON ELECTION PETITION

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 11 February 1926, Page 7

LYTTELTON ELECTION PETITION

—:—♦—— The Lyttelton election petition will be heard on 12th March by Mr. Justice Sim and Mr. Justice Ostler. "PLAYING WITH THE .. SYSTEM" -.;,.;■ h „ —■—♦ —- / !^ NECESSITY OF COMPLETE SECONDARY EDUCATION. . The Minkter of Education (Sir James Parr), in replying to a deputation this morning, stated that he hoped next year to bring into effect a proposal in regard to secondary education, ensuring that education was provided which suited the natural sptitude of the individual child. The Minister remarked that the late headmaster of th» Auckland Grammar Bchool (Mr. J. W. Tibbs) used to ,teU him that many, of the boys who entered that school attended for a year, and some for only six months, and then left. If parents wanted their children to have secondary education, they must send them for the full course; otherwise they were only playing with the system. About 25 per cent, of the entrants to the secondary schools left at the end of the first year. . The headmaster of the Wellington Boys' College (Mr. T. B. Cresswell) said, in his experience, it occurred.at the end of the second year. He would not object to »Hmini»t»i-ing a regulation which required all pupils to remain for a certain time at the college.