EDUCATIONAL.
(Por Press Association.) Wellington, Last Night. Acting Under statutory power which lias been in existence for many years, ■he Education Department lias decided that from January 1 next the standard of exemption from attendance at. primaw schools will he raised from the filth !o a pass in the sixth standard. For •ram - rears the fourth standard was Mm highest which had. to be passed to secure exemption, but in accordance with ihe steady tendency towards, increasing (he educational requirements. Ibe fifth was adopted, and now the sixlh has been made ilir compulsory point in Ihe educational coarse of New Zealand children,
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 93, 9 June 1911, Page 5
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102EDUCATIONAL. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 93, 9 June 1911, Page 5
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