CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS.
Sir,—"Stop the constant drift of population from the country to the towns" is preached by all and sundry and is in truth a sound doctrine. Consolidated schools will be a direct means of weaning the boys and girls away from the farms. School age is an impressionable age and example and environment aro two factors which loom largo in tho formation of a child's character; therefore, let us have high schools, with tho best teachers, established in central country districts away from the towns and tho everlasting lure of tho cities. Should I have my way, all schools would be erected well outside the cities and townships in future. Then we would have healthier children, both morally # and physically. Evidently ifc would be far more pleasant for the town children t'o travel a few miles along smooth concrete roads into the peaeefulncss of the country to study than it would be for the country children to bo jolted over 12 or 15 miles of rough roads into a noisy town to study. I. School.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20537, 11 April 1930, Page 14
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176CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20537, 11 April 1930, Page 14
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