SCHOOL-LEAVING AGE
INCREASE TO FIFTEEN FAVOURED PHYSICAL BENEFITS STRESSED (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 11. # “The amount of child labour in this country is simply appalling,” said Miss V. Curtis (North Taranaki) during a discussion on the school leaving age at the annual conference of the New Zealand Educational Institute to-day. Miss Curtis said the raising of the school leaving age to 15 would have a beneficial effect on the physical as well as the mental development of the child. A remit from Taihape urged that raising the age to 15 should be brought into force in 1940. Mr M. Riske (Wellington), moving as an amendment that the words “as soon as practicable ” be substituted for “ in 1940,” said the change could not be brought into force so quickly. Mr A. Breward (Northern Bay of Plenty): Many of the technical colleges and high schools are already seriously crowded. Mr E. Evans (Motueka): We have not room in the present buildings to accommodate the extra children there would be. Mr A. J. Graham (Waitoa) said that in politics “as soon as practicable ” meant never. Was it not a fact that the necessary legislation had been on the Statute Book for 25 years? The president (Mr T. Kane): Quite. The remit was passed in its original form.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23806, 12 May 1939, Page 7
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