COUNCIL OF EDUCATION.

Lake County Press, Issue 2792, 3 July 1919, Page 5

COUNCIL OF EDUCATION.

Improvements in Schools. Teaching of History. At Wellington last week the Council of Education adopted the following resolutions: That the Council re-affirm the resolution passed last year that no child should be taught in any room with less than 12 square feet of floor space and ask Parlament to grant £500,000 to proivide for the necessary accomodation of primary schools. That where available the minimum amount of land for a school should be four acres. That in cases where there are more than 400 children attending a school, there should be at least one acre of flat land for each hundred children attendthe school and the Government be asked for an interim grant of £500,000 towards carrying this out. That in any new large school proposed to be erected, provision should be made for a suitable room for the use of a school dentist and doctor. That in view of present conditions a further increased capitation allowance should be granted to school committees for incidental purposes. That, where the provision of school sites and playgrounds, whether new or additional, is necessary, the full cost should be found by the department, unless there is money available for the purpose out of the general funds of the board.

That owing to the national importance of securing a sound course of instruction in history in primary and secondary schools, steps be taken to make better provision for it than at present exists. That in view of the national, importance of manual and technical instruotion, the cost of sites for buildings for such purposes should be provided by the State in all cases in which local provision for sites by means of donation or otherwise is insufficient to meet all reasonable needs.