COUNTRY SCHOOLS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 7

COUNTRY SCHOOLS

TRANSPORTING CHILDREN

l|A plea for better facilities for transporting children in outlying districts to school was made in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon by Mr. F. Langstone (Government, Walmarino), speaking on the Education Department vote in the Estimates. "It is absolutely miserable and parsimonious the way children in the backblocks are treated when.-it comes to conveying them to-, school." he said. In gome" country districts '■• the children were not treated as-human beings, yet people were encouraged to settle in Country districts and have children. . The Prime Minister-said it would be_very wrong; for the impression'to get abroad that country children were being neglected. On a population basis they had had more done for them by the present Government than the city children. . ■ v

The Minister of Education . (Mr. Mason) said that all that could be done- was to consider carefully the needs of" the children in the light of limited petrol. There was the utmost difficulty-in getting the transport that was needed, arid it might be that some of-the'services had'lapsed because of lack of tenderers.