INDIGNANT MINISTER.
AUSTRALIA'S FEEBLE- AIINDED
CHILDREN
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.)
SYDNEY;, February 12.
Air Al C. Carmichael, Alinister of Public Instruction, is indignant the cabled report from the Auckland Aledical Congress in regard to feeble-minded children. He said : "'I don't remember reading a worse libel on Australia than the statement that 4 per cent, of Australian children are definitely feebleminded and 12 per cent, so mentally dull that they require special training. I cannot speak for the other States, but as far as New South Wales is concerned. 1 am convinced that the Congress had absolutely no data for making such a SAveeping condemnation."
After quoting schobl statistics in disproof of tlie statement, he . added: "We are grappling in earnest with a difficult problem — that< of providing education for mentally deficient children, but I do not, think it in the interests of Australia or that it can do any good to aggravate our deficiency. There are plenty of people rea3y to cry stinking fish in regard to our resources amd industrial condition^, , but in Heaven's name let them restrain themselves when it comes to branding Australia as a land of feeble■minded children !"
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13304, 13 February 1914, Page 3
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193INDIGNANT MINISTER. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13304, 13 February 1914, Page 3
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