SCHOOL ENTRANCE AGE
BAN ON FIVE-YEAR-OLDS STATEMENT BY MINISTER [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Saturday The exclusion of the five-year-old children from State schools was referred to by Sir Alexander Young, Minister of Health and National Government candidate for Hamilton, during the course of his meeting at Newstead. While he acknowledged that the decision not to admit five-year-old children to the schools was made as an economy measure, Sir Alexander said it was interesting to note that there was quite a substantial volume of medical opinion which agreed that children should not go to school until they were seven years of age. Sir Truby King in the heyday of his activities was a champion of this xause, while Dr. Going, formerly of Hamilton, held similar views oil the subject. Sir Alexander added that he did not necessarily associate himself with the views expressed and he felt sure that in due course, with the growing betterment of the national finances, it was only a matter of time when the school doors would again be open to five-year-old children.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22269, 18 November 1935, Page 13
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