LEAVING SCHOOL
THE AGE REGULATION. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, May 21. “Some parents seem to be under a misapprehension as to when their children can leave school,” stated Dr J. W. Mcllwraith, Senior Inspector, at a meeting of the Wellington Education Board to-day. Dr Mcllwraith stated that the leaving age was fixed at 14 years unless a pupil possessed a certificate of proficiency in Standard 6, in which case he could leave when he reached his 13th year, but no earlier. A child who gained his proficiency before the age of 13 could go on to a post primary school or pass into the seventh standard of a primary school, but he could not leave school altogether.
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Southland Times, Issue 21089, 22 May 1930, Page 8
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118LEAVING SCHOOL Southland Times, Issue 21089, 22 May 1930, Page 8
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