SCHOOL PUPILS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 43, 1 February 1934, Page 5

SCHOOL PUPILS

CONCESSION EXTENDED Junior and Senior Free Places MINISTER’S ANNOUNCEMENT (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 1. The Minister of Education, the Hon. R. Masters, in a statement today, announced that, although fortunately the position of unemployment among young people leaving secondary schools was not so acute as during the past year or two, he had decided, in view of the uncertainty which still existed in the matter of obtaining suitable employment, and of undoubted financial difficulties still experienced by many parents, to continue, in a slightly modified form, concessions that had been granted in all types of Government post-primary schools during the past three years to fee-paying pupils. Accordingly, he had approved an extension of junior free places for an additional year for pupils who have not already held free places for more than two years and who have failed to secure senior free places at the end of 1933, also an extension to the end of the present year of senior free places of pupils who will have attained the age of nineteen during 1934, provided that in the case of both junior and senior free place extensions the parent of tho pupil proves to the satisfaction of the Director of Education that he is unable to provide the necessary fees for tuition of the child. After the expiry of the free place in the case of junior pupils, except under very special circumstances, no consideration will be given to any application for concession if it is not made within a month after the reopening of the school. Parents will be expected in the first instance to apply to the principal of the school.