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Evening Star, Issue 25941, 5 November 1946, Page 3

LABOUR’S POLICY MEANS -VN 'A m BETTER education has always been a keystone to Labour’s policy. To that end they reinstated the five-year olds in schools, extended the school leaving age to 15, built bigger, better, modem schools and extended educational facilities in town and country alike, from kindergarten to university. Labour plans further to push ahead vigourously with school building, reduce classes to minimum of 30, provide free text books during the whole of school life, assist pre-school training still further, raise the school leaving age again ... and provide* the best possible facilities to produce men and women educated in the fullest sense of the word—mentally, •culturally, physically. FREE DENTAL AND MEDICAL SERVICES The free school dental service which last year treated 200,000 children, will be extended to cover secondary schools as well. Medical inspections will be continued and improved. FREE APPLES IN SCHOOLS Since 1941, as part of the health scheme, up to 157,000 cases of apples are distributed annually to school children in the season. FREE MILK DAILY For the last ten years, free milk has been supplied to the school children of New Zealand, an important forward step in the maintenance of national health. MONEY SPENT ON EDUCATION HAS MORE THAN DOUBLED UNDER NATIONAL UNDER LABOUR (1934-35) (1945-46) £2,900,000 £7,900,000