BROKEN SCHOOL YEAR
[Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 23. The dislocation of the school routine caused by the infantile paralysis epidemic and the fact that the Coronation celebrations in May and the New Education Fellowship Conference m July will break further into the school year, have been causing concern to many parents in Wellington. The Education Department recently announced that the school holidays in May would be reduced by one week and a special vacation would be given in July for the week of the New Education Fellowship Conference. The schools are to resume on May 24, instead of on May 31 as originally intended, and are to close again for that week in July in which the conference falls in each district, or in the most convenient adjacent district. The attitude of the department was explained yesterday by the Director of Education (Mr N.T. Lauibourne) who said there was no intention to out out the May vacation..
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Evening Star, Issue 22631, 24 April 1937, Page 13
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159BROKEN SCHOOL YEAR Evening Star, Issue 22631, 24 April 1937, Page 13
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