SCHOOL AGE BILL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20716, 8 November 1930, Page 11

SCHOOL AGE BILL.

SECOND READING PASSED. LORD PERCY'S OPPOSITION. (Received November 7, 11.45 p.m.) LONDON, Njov. 7. In the House of Commons to-day the President of the Board of Education, Sir Charles Trevelyan, moved tho second reading of tho School Ago Bill Ho said the raising of tho age from 14 to 15 was only part of the reorganisation of school life, tho object of which was to ensure real education between the ages of 11 and 15 years for children of the poorer classes. No members of the upper classes failed to keep their sous at school until they were 17 or 18 and it was time tho children of the workers were given tho same opportunities. No bigger thing could be done for the country. r lhe bill was a charter for the average child. Lord Eustace Percy, Conservative member for Hastings, moved tho rejection of the bill. He said that instead of providing a solution of tho problem of juvenile unemployment it would cause such violent fluctuations as seriously to inciease unemployment among young people in the next fivo years. The education of those whom the bill was intended to benefit was half carried out in factories after school. The measure was read a second time by 294 votes to 227.