WAR WORK AND SCHOOLS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 6

WAR WORK AND SCHOOLS

The attendances at schools in Invercargill and in country districts have been affected by the transfer of workers, cai'penters, and 6ther tradesmen to northern centres, says the Southland "Daily Ne^vs." In many instances when married men join the Armed Forces and go to northern camps their wives and families take up residence near the camps. This, too, has affected the school attendances. Since 1936 there has been a slight but steady decrease in the number of pupils attending the public primary schools in Southland. This is probably due, in part, to the increasing numbers attending private schools. The attendances at schools in the Dunedin and Oamaru districts have been affected to such an extent by the transfer of munition workers, carpenters, and other tradesmen to northern centres, states the '"Otago Daily Times," that several of the schools have suffered in grading, and are likely in consequence to lose teachers. RESUMING UNDER PROTEST (P.A.) PALMERSTON N., April 30. It was intimated today that the flax and textile workers at Foxton who have been on strike over the differences in pay for operating two scutching machines, which they claimed did identical work, would resume at midnight tonight, but under protest, pending a settlement of the dispute by negotiation. . During the present fiscal year Canada is spending an additional 341,000,000 dollars to defraj'- all expenses of the Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons overseas and to pay R.C.A.F. personnel, whether with R.C.A.F. formations or with the R.A.F., no matter in. what [theatre g&wa? theyrareiseryin^..