EDUCATION BOARD

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 68, 22 March 1933, Page 9

EDUCATION BOARD

BUSINESS QUICKLY DONE

"Don't get through the business before morning tea time," remarked one member at this morning's meeting of the Wellington Education Board when the chairman (Mr. T. Forsytk) was expediting tho business because some members wanted to fulfil a pressing engagement at the Basin Eeserve. However, morning tea appeared half-an-hour earlier than usual and the member's fears proved groundless.

Several perennial subjects of discussion wore allowed to pass with little or no comment, and several reports which normally would have been discussed were held over "ia.order to give country members time to peruse them." The result was that a lengthy order paper was quickly disposed of.

The board decided to give no support to a deutal scheme for schools suggested by the Sunlight League of New Zealand,' . members expressing the opinion that the schemo made invidious distinction ' between children whose parents could afford to pay for dental treatment and those whose parents could not. The present scheme, it was said, was entirely adequate. The right of entry into 'schools caused a brief halt in the rapid disposal of the order paper. The chairman made it clear that the board had first say in the matter. ' If it gave permission for someone to lecture in the schools, that permission, before it became effective, had to receive the endorsement of the headmaster' and the school committee. If, however, the board withheld its permission, that was final. The question arose with respect to an application to lecture in schools after hours on "The Scientific Aspects of Alcohol."

■In'view-of- the amount of looting of vegetables which took place from school gardens during the' recent summer vacation, the board will appeal to school committees to' endeavour to arrange in future for more adequate supervision'. ' '

An offer from the New .Zealand Fruit Growers' Federation of posters setting out the salient features of the Dominion's" fruiVindustry was accepted.