SCHOOL ENTRANCE AGE
PROTEST AGAINST INCREASE TEACHERS TO PETITION PARLIAMENT. (Peb United Pbess Association.) WELLINGTON, May 8. Reaffirming the remit of 1933—that, in the interests of the physical, social, and moral welfare of the children of New Zealand, the enactment forbidding the enrolment of a child at a primary school until the age of six years should be repealed—the delegates at the conference of the New Zealand Educational Institute brought forward additional arguments in support of their contentions. A remit that teachers and school committees should combine to organise the presentation of a petition to Parliament on the subject was then discussed. It was passed with the addition of an amendment authorising the incoming executive to set up a sub-committee in one of the four centres, with power to spend up to £SOO, to awaken public opinion to a degree that would lead to effective political action being taken to readmit five-year-old children to the schools.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22257, 9 May 1934, Page 9
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