PRIMARY EDUCATION

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 23 May 1932, Page 5

PRIMARY EDUCATION

SCHOOLS RE-OPEN TO-DAY AGE OF ADMISSION LIMITED Primary schools throughout the Taranaki Education Board’s district as well as in other parts of the Dominion reopened to-day after the winter vacation. In South Taranaki stormy weather prevailed and smaller attendances than usual were apparent in the infant classes. Headmasters to-day were required to enforce the new departmental regulation and no child beiow six -years of age attending for the first time for enrolment was admitted. In many instances advice was not received at the schools in time for Die re-opening as intimation of the enforcement of the regulation was received in Ne.w Plymouth by Mi- H. W. Instill, secretary of the Taranaki Education Board, only on Saturday. . _ Interviewed this morning. Mr J. W. Thomas, headmaster of the Hawera Main School, told a “Hawera Star” reporter that children below six years of age already enrolled would be allowed to remain, hut others seeking enrolment would not be admitted until after their sixth birthday. Between 60 and 70 children under six years of -age were admitted last February and he estimated that the regulations would effect a. drop of at least 50 in the school roll next year.