PRAISE FOR DOMINION
MR DRUMMOND IMPRESSED. INNOVATIONS IN SCHOOLS. '(United. Press Association.) '■ (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, May 1. The Minister of Education (Mr Drummond) on his return from New Zealand yesterday praised New Zealand’s agricultural training and the reform of juvenile offenders. “ The innovation of providing a type of school . furniture best suited to the height, etc., of the pupils in many centres compelled my admiration,” said Mr Drummond. “Other interesting experiments are open-air schools, notably at Christchurch, and the provision for a degree course in home science at the universities.” The Minister said he was particularly impressed with the extent to which local government had been developed in New Zealand. The Dominion had a number of fine ports along the coast, and in the exceptional diffusion of the population throughout the country, with its many progressive cities and provincial towns, New Zealand provided a striking contrast to New South Wales, where decentralisation was long overdue.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20706, 2 May 1929, Page 9
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