SCHOOL LEAVING AGE.
A MINISTER'S OPINIONS. In a speech at Lithgow, New South Wales, lately, the Minister, for Education, Mr. Mutch, said that a, great number of people advocated the raising of the school leaving age from 14 to 16 years. Boys were too ready to leave school and to take any employment which offered, continued Mr. Mutch. When they came to provide a homo they found, to their regret, that their earnings did not enable them to make the kind .of home they felt they ought to have. • They saw them.thal it would have been better had they received training, which would have enabled them to earn more.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19418, 28 August 1926, Page 14
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109SCHOOL LEAVING AGE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19418, 28 August 1926, Page 14
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