SCHOOL COMMITTEES' CONFERENCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 87, 1 June 1911, Page 5

SCHOOL COMMITTEES' CONFERENCE.

A BATCH OF RESOLUTIONS. (’-V Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Wanganui, Last Night. At the annual conference of Wanganui School Committees’ Association to-night, resolutions were carried that schools lie supplied with universal reading books, and that children he allowed to take, them home or that parents he given an opportunity to purchase similar hooks for home list 1 ; that those in authority appoint. a censor of moving pictures not in the interests of our young people; that primary schools he placed on the same footing as district high schools as regards subsidies; that single desks ho approved; that (he Minister of Education he recommended to issue a journal on education; that 100 much lime is being wasted on nature study to the ueghet of mr.rv important work,-ami that, steps he taken to bring about a more desirable stale or 'alVairs connected therewith; that this conference regrets the large extent to which overcrowding prevails in some, of our schools in the education district; and that the association disapproves of the Department's action in requesting committees to contribute half cost to purchasing additional areas for playgrounds.