DOMINION NEWS
country schools
NO ’ WHOLESALE CLOSING
/Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Nov. • 20.
Having had statements brought under his notice to the effect.that there, is jto be a .wholesale closing..of small country, schools, the Hon. R. Masters iriade the following’ statement s ‘fit is not intended that there should bo any wholesale. , closing of email schools, but in a number of instances the only teacher procurable is an. un*. certified, girl with no training.. The education of pupils can be.. carried on much more efficiently, and incidentally • much mor® economically, by means of a correspondence school... “Grade O schools cost the country £l4 5s per head, and- the correspondence school can do the work or about £6 a head'. In a number ,of instances it was found, beneficial to pupils to close a small school and convoy the children to a larger school. • ’ , "Before ahy school is closed tho circumstances m 't&6 case, will be care-. fully considered, and fiction will bo taken only where the result will ho the provision of bettor education for,the children.’* . ..» . ' 1 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmmmmmmmmm j
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11493, 21 November 1931, Page 7
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178DOMINION NEWS Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11493, 21 November 1931, Page 7
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