SCHOOL COMMITTEES

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 28 September 1933, Page 6

SCHOOL COMMITTEES

NATIONAL BODY FORMED. DECISION OF CONFERENCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.o WELLINGTON, Sept. 27. A conference of Dominion school committees to-night formed a national body. It was decided that boundaries of district associations should be defined by the executive of the Dominion federation after consultation with, the existing local associations affected. Affiliation fees were fixed at £3 3s a year for associations with 40 school committees and £2 2s for associations with fewer. The former will be entitled to two votes and the latter to one. It was agreed to establish a delegates’ travelling expenses fund by a levy of 2s per committee. The conference passed a. number of remits on educational matters. "Wider development of district high schools in rural and semi-rural areas was urged. One motion carried was: “That the deficiency in the education system caused by the withdrawal of kindergarten subsidies and. the exclusion of five-year-old children should he repaired at the earliest moment by the institution of a kindergarten department at each, primary school, where children of kindergarten age may voluntarily attend.” The fourteen at the conference represented Auckland, South Taranaki, Wellington, Canterbury, South Canterbury, Otago and Southland associations. Mr. F. P. Ongley, Wellington, presided.