PUPILS TURNED AWAY
LACK 07 ACCOMMODATION
N.SAV. BUILDING DELAYS (9 a.m.) SYDNEY. Jan. 29. Because of insufficient accommodation hundreds of young children weie turned away from schools in the Sydney metropolitan area which opened yesterday after the holidays. The New South Wales Minister of Education. Mr. R. J. HefTron, said that all new pupils would be absorbed as soon as possible and that, if nccossaty, mobile class rooms would be constructed and other buildings acquired to cope with the overflow.
“No child offering for attendance at New South Wales public _ schools will be denied accommodation,'' he said.
Expenditure on education is at the highest level in .the history of the State, but material shortages are delaying the building programme. The higher birth rate in the earlier years of the war has resulted in an increase of 5000 over last year's enrolments at the primaryschools.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22241, 29 January 1947, Page 8
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