YOUTH DELINQUENCY
SEEKING A REASON
The decline in moral standards and the increase in youth delinquency was the subject of a circular received by the Wellington Education Board at its meeting today from the Wanganui Education Board. The latter body requested detailed information as to the religious instruction under the Nelson or other system and devotional exercises conducted in the schools under the jurisdiction of the Wellington board. One or two members suggested that the present was not an opportune time for the collecting of a mass of detail, owing to staff shortage, but the majority of members expressed the same concern as that expressed by the Wanganui board and agreed that the position was a serious one, although it might not be that all the culprits came from the State schools. The root of the trouble, it was suggested, lay in the lack of parental control.
After some discussion, it was agreed to leave the request in the hands of the executive to prepare information for submission to the board at its next meeting. The Wanganui board's request, it was considered, was too detailed and the information it required could be supplied in a simplified form.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 24, 29 January 1942, Page 5
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