WHAT HOLIDAYS?

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 107, 6 May 1926, Page 8

WHAT HOLIDAYS?

DISCUSSION REOPENED

PRIMABY AND SECONDARY,

SCHOOLS,

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evenlno Post.")

AUCKLAND, This Day. The question of holiday* of primary schools was again discussed by the Auckland Education Board yesterday. A resolution to reopen the discussion of the holidays to be granted this month was defeated, and it was decided to take a referendum of school committees on the subject for the future guidance of the board. The chairman (Mr. A. Burns) moved that the board should take the referendum. He said the primary schools had ten full weeks of holiday in the year, while the secondary schools had thirteen weeks. The first question to be decided was the uniformity of the holidays of primary and secondary schools. This would mean adding three weeks to the primary school holidays. There was no response when Mr. Burns asked whether anyono was willing to support such a change, but Mr. G. Brownlee suggested that the secondary schools might be persuaded to cut their holidays down. Tho chairman's motion was carried. It was decided to take a vote of the committees on tho following quettions: —(1) . That the present holidays be increased; (2) that the present number of holidays remain; (3) that the old system of a week's holiday at Easter, one at midwinter, and one at Michaelmas, be reverted to. The Kowhai Junior High School Committee suggested that tho school should be granted two weeks in May to conform ,with the holidays of the secondary schools. It was stated that the minimum number of half-days for which junior high schools must remain open during the year had not yet been fixed by regulation, and the suggestion was made that tho number should be intermediate between those of the primary and secondary schools. It was decided that the board could not differentiato between primary and junior high schools.