SCHOOL PUPILS
HIGHER LEAVING AGE TO BE RAISED TO 15 BILL NEXT SESSION (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH,' May 11. Tlie raising of the school leaving ago"by a year was forecast by the Minister of Education, the Hon. 11. CL R. Mason, at the opening of the diamond .jubilee meeting of the Now Zealand Educational Institute. A hieasui'e would come before Parliament at the' coiiling'session, he said. Other countries had raised the leaving age'above that of New Zealand. New Zenliind was behind in atl'eqiiat'e” school buildings and the requisite number of .teachers, but if 'they waited fbr'both buildings and teachers ’they "would wait; a long time.
"Therefore,' 'the Government has resolved io remedy the situation and before the vein - ' is out a change will ho made',.” he’said. The Prime' Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, in hi’S address; 'agreed'With Mr.'Mason aiid saicl a "step would have tb be taken. First.' the a!ge Would have ft be raised to 15 and" then 16 years. The .teaching profession would have to pUt up With!'the disadvantages of overcrowding until hew buildings ebul'd be hitiit' and niore' teachers' trained.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21092, 12 May 1943, Page 4
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