SCHOOL HOLIDAYS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1188, 10 December 1924, Page 4

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS.

WELLINGTON DISCUSSION. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Doc. 10. At the meeting of the Education Board Mr White moved that “the granting of special favours (holidays) to city children is unfair and opposed to the best interests of the whole qf the children, and that the action of the chairman and secretary in conniving at the breaking of the board’s by-laws is deserving of censure.” The mover pointed out the discrepancy between the holidays, granted to country and city school children. Country children, he' said, were given one holiday for the local show, but not more, but in the city a special holiday was granted during the month of November, when the conditions were unsuitable for holidays. In seconding the first part of the motion, Mr Loudon regretted any reference that might be inferred from Mr White’s allusion to the holiday granted to the city schools on the departure of Viscount Jellicoe. Mr R. A. Wright strongly deprecated the motion as a reflection on Viscount Jellicoe, who had a great affection for the children, amongst whom he was extremely popular. Other members spoke in a similar strain and the motion was lost, Mr White only voting for it.