HIGHER LEAVING AGE
' SCHOOLS OF BRITAIN THIRD READING OF BILL (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9.30 a.m. RUGBY, May 28. The House of Commons last night passed the Education Bill, tile voting on the third reading being 256 for the bill and 128 against it. The Minister of Education, Mr. Olivei Stanley, estimated that the average school-leaving age would be raised to 14 years nine months, and assured the House that local authorities would be encouraged to provide junior schools on the basis that 100 per cent of the children would stay at school till the ago of 15 years. He and several other speakers welcomed a settlement of religious denominational difficulties contained in the measure.
The bill is to come into operation in 1939.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19028, 30 May 1936, Page 5
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