TEMPERANCE TEACHING

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 26 May 1915, Page 4

TEMPERANCE TEACHING

NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE SUGGESTIONS. '

B_ I_X__3BAPH— PKESS ASSOCIATION. A_. + WELLINGTON, May 25. A deputation trom tlie New Zealand Alliance and VV.C.T.U. waited et^& ±±on j. Alien, Minister for Education, to-day and urged tnat additional meS. ures snouid be taken to instruct c_S£ area regarding the evils arising W tne abuse of alcoliol - In reply Mr Al.en said the Educat_°\ i. artment ad doae a deal in the direction of pointing out to tha cnildren under its care the dangers fo* lowing tne abuse of alcohol. The deputation s spokesman had said that in. some cases charts now exhibited _r_ nn^\ Were D_° fc l eT7in Z purpose* , because teachers were not svmpathefic. He did not think anyt££g the Department might do would l__ve

i. ?f• ?• Atkinson said the teacher would be influenced if he were t!jX teaching marks for the subject. KfS perance teaching were made an eJcammativi subject the teachers would W come sympathetic. ' 7*^ The Minister: "I cannot j .. Son" I. *"?*»£> behind-tit sit ges.ion. if a teacher rs gome to £» "dSf/vf\^ y examinatfoTfesSts I don t think his soul wil be inhis work." Mr Allen added that th?w oeiicy of the Department w£ to atfe less importance to examinations aSfto concentrate attention on the improve* ment of the children. The De_St men. was improving its syUabus'Som 'ing children m good citizenship and more would be done in that SeE as opportunity offered. If some S£ ■t^,M re +not symPathetically inclined towards temperance teaching that waa a difficulty that would have to £ overcome The Minister said he would consult the D_rec. or of EducatioTT |ardmg the suggestion that temperance teaching should be included in tho syllabus of the training college