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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 March 1922, Page 5

Mr E. 11. Short will sing a solo from “The Messiah” during the rmvice at Holy 'trinity Church o morrow evening. A reply was made at Wellington by the Minister for Education, the non. C. J. Parr, to recent criticism of the action of the Education Department in curtailing the capitation allowances for swimming and life-saving classes in the primary and secondary schools. The Minister said the classes are usually taken by the permanent sun of the schools and often nr ordinary school hours. Where outside instructors are employed the appointments are mainly honorary except in some secondary schools, where a part-time instructor in physical culture, pail by the Government, may do the woH. The capitation m practice has bee really a subsidy to the funds of the school for incidental purposes and has usually been employed to meet expenses in connection with spoils g erally. Since the teachers will presumably still continue to . take flic classes’in swimming and life-saving, either in school hours or voluntarily out of school hours, as they have done in'the past, the withdrawal of the capitation allowance will not threaten the existence of the classes.