WIRELESS IN SCHOOLS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 202, 10 August 1927, Page 4

WIRELESS IN SCHOOLS.

INSTALLATION OF SETS URGED BETTER THAN RELIGIOUS EXERCISES. (Special to “Tribune.”) Wellington, Aug. 10. The installation of wireless in schools was suggested by Air. H. T. Armstrong (Christchurch East) when speaking in the House of Representatives last night. Air. Armstrong said he knew the stand would be that the school hours were fully occupied at present. There were some Members of Parliament who would have half the time in the schools taken up with religious instruction but he proposed that wireless should be installed instead, for it would afford prominent educationists—probably some of the greatest in the world were already in New Zealand—an opportunity to impart their knowledge to all of the children in th© schools. The thing could be done easily and would make school life more tolerable. Hundreds of thousands of children and ailults, too, would benefit. The idea had been tried elsewhere, for Air. Stoddart, Education Director of’ the British Broadcasting Company, had stated that in England there were between 1900 and 2000 schools listening-in to the Daventry station. “I feel sure that it. would be a splendid thing for this country,” concluded Air. Armstrong.