CAMP FACILITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1942, Page 3

CAMP FACILITIES

EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

CONTINUANCE OF STUDY

Viewed as a matter of national as well as individual importance, the provision of educational facilities for students serving in military camps is being made the subject of representations to the authorities. It has been discussed in tt.S.A. quarters with a view to the Government being approached. It was pointed out at a meeting in the south that if text books and instructors were to be provided for conscientious objectors' camps, similar facilities should be granted to men in the Armed Forces. Parents of youths in camp, it was-stated, were being given considerable anxiety by the interruption of their sons' studies.

The following recommendations to Dominion headquarters of the R.S.A. have been made by the Temuka branch:—

"1. That the Government be strongly urged to provide in all soldiers',camps text-books covering a wide range of subjects, and all facilities to enable soldiers who so desire to continue their studies.

"2. That in the absence of any indication in the minutes of the Dominion executive committee of replies received frpm the Justice Department or the New Zealand University; concerning the granting of special facilities for study and for the sitting of university examinations by men in camp, this association seeks information .on the matter and at the same time records a protest against the granting of such facilities to conscientious objectors while the same are withheld from members of the Forces in New Zealand.

"3. That facilities be granted to men going into camp to sit for university examinations before going into camp, or failing that, that time off be allowed them to sit for their examinations."