1934 ENROLMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18264, 6 December 1933, Page 8

1934 ENROLMENTS

HIGH SCHOOL COURSES EQUIPMENT OF PUPILS One problem that many unemployed parents are called upon to meet is the question of knowing what to do with a child that has passed the proficiency examination this year. Interviewed on the matter to-day, Mr L. T. Burnard, chairman of the Gisborne High School Board of Governors, said that an erroneous impression existed in some quarters on the subject of the cost of books. The school had established a department for the sale of second-hand books some little time ago. These would be reserved primarily for pupils.whose parents were unemployed or of small means, and the cost would, in all eases, be brought below £l, and in most of them considerably so. The school authorities were in sympathy with those parents who were endeavoring to give their children the advantages of free education at the High School, to which the education system entitled them, and in cases where, parents were unable to provide anything at all for books an endeavor would be made to meet the position. On the question of the school uniform. this was as simple and cheap as practicable in the case of both hoys and girls, and it would be found that, once the initial outlay was over, the school uniform was the cheapest, method of dress that could he adopted for either sex, said Mr Burnard. Inquiries from parents having problems to face on any of theso matters would be welcomed bv the rector, or by tho [board’s secretary, Mr 0, 11. Bull, and they could rely on receiving sympathetic consideration of their difficulties.