BENEFIT OF CHANGE
EVACUATED CHILDREN EXPERIENCE IN BRITAIN (Received March 6, 5.35 p.m.) British Wireless LONDON, March 5 Introducing the Estimates for the Ministry of Education in the House of Commons to-day the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, Sir Kenneth Lindsay, discussed some of the problems and merits of the evacuation of schoolchildren. "Whereas at the outset we regarded evacuation merely as a necessary nuisance," he said, "we find that it has meant illumination in the lives of many thousands of urban children. Thus, what was started as an accident may well be continued as a policy."
In six months it had been discovered that tjio minds, manners, outlook and physique of the children had changed. The testimony of the inspectors was unanimous on that point. Regular meals, wholesome food, long hours of quiet sleep and fresh air, which the child could only receive in the countryside, were some of the reasons which helped to explain this fact.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23599, 7 March 1940, Page 9
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