SCHOOL LEAVING AGE
RAISED TO 15 YEARS. NEW REGULATIONS NEXT WEEK. P.A. NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 2. The primary school leaving age will be raised to fifteen years iw regulations which are to be brought down next week, said the Minister o£ Education, Hon. H. G R. Mason, tonight. The effect would be gradual, be added, and the full influence of the measure would be felt only at tlvend of 1944, or the beginning of the 1945 school year. . Mr. Mason said that the regulations were being drafted on exactly similar lines to the terms of the Bill pi '- sented in Parliament. No child who had turned 14 vears before the new school vear would be compelled to t<ma ! n at school, because the present rule would still apply.- and anv emk attending school next year who became 14 would remain at school until attaining the age of 15 years.
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Grey River Argus, 3 December 1943, Page 8
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