ECONOMY IN SCHOOLS.
COUNTRY PARENTS PROTEST. [from our OWN- correspondent.] TE AROHA, Tuesday, 'flic action of the Education Department in discontinuing the commercial classes in country high schools was viewed with disapproval at a meeting of Te Aroha householders. Mr. 15. V. Fitzpatrick, who presided, said the department was making a " chopping block of the children in (lie interests of economy." There wero oilier ways in which economy could he exercised oilier than that of cutting into actual education. A resolution of protest was passed, and steps wero taken to prepare a petition.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21109, 17 February 1932, Page 12
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93ECONOMY IN SCHOOLS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21109, 17 February 1932, Page 12
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