EDUCATION ECONOMIES

Evening Star, Issue 21076, 13 April 1932, Page 10

EDUCATION ECONOMIES

- DEPUTATIONS TO MINISTERS [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 13. A protest against the proposals of the National Expenditure Commission to curtail manual instruction in schools was made to-day by a teachers’‘deputation to the Hon. R. Masters (Minister of Education). Mr Master? said that economies would have to be made, but be hoped they would be carried out as equitably as possible. The National Commission recommended that manual training should be confined to the sixth standards of the four main centres, and be eliminated from the country schools, but the Government would not agree to this proposal. He said economies would be made, and, he hoped, with a minimum of hardship. He would appreciate any suggestions that the deputation might make. A deputation from the Secondary School Boards’ Conference also waited on Mr Masters to-day, and placed its viewpoints before him. The conference decisions, the Minister said, appeared to be very reasonable from his point of view. He said the question of the abolition or the unification pf me boards would have to be gone into very fully, and the deputation’s representations would be submitted to Cabinet before any decisions were come to.