EXTRA SCHOOL WORK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21403, 30 January 1933, Page 8

EXTRA SCHOOL WORK

EXTENSION AT KOWHAI CONCESSION BY MINISTER A number of boys and girls who have completed their period of instruction at tho Kowhai Junior High School and have not been able to obtain employment will bo able to return to the school when it opens for the first term of the new year. They will be able to take an intensive course of instruction in Form 3 work. A proposal to carry on this extra study until the pupils are placed in employment was originally vetoed by the Minister of Education, tho lion. It. Masters, although it had tho endorsement of the Auckland Education Board, but in response to further representations the Minister has now consented to this course being taken.

With a view to assisting pupils who could not find work last year, tho committee of the school instituted a fourth form and 45 scholars were able to take advantage of a vocational training course until 40 of them wero found employment. It was intended to continue this fourth form this year, but tho Minister intervened. He contended that it was never intended that the school should retain pupils for four years and expressed the opinion that pupils who wero able to remain at school longer than the three years should go to the Grammar Schools or the Technical College. Recently tho Auckland members of Parliament, headed by Mr. A. J. Stallworthy, waited on the Minister and urged that provision bo made at tho school. Mr. Stallworthy has -now received a reply from tho Minister in which Sir. Masters' states that in view of tho fact that many parents cannot afford to send their children to another school and wish them to continue only until such time as they can securo a position, he has decided to allow the pupils to return to Kowhai School for tho present on tho understanding that there is to bo no Fourth Form and that an intensive course of instruction in Form Three work is taken.