HEALTH OF SCHOOL CHILDREN

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13997, 29 January 1916, Page 5

HEALTH OF SCHOOL CHILDREN

[United Press Association.]

Wellington, Jan. 20. "There are come people," said tho Hon. J A JJanan, in reply to a deputation to-day, "who would make tho war an excuse to stop certain services.' For ii'stance. some thought the medical inspection of schools could well stop during the war. on tho ground of ita expense. He would not countenance such a thing: it. would bo fak* economy. A reduction of expenditure on: this and other . services, like primary, education, would mean that the children oi' the woikers would be deprived of benefits which they should receive. The workers were sharing but littde m thf- pro?pei'tv of tho country, whicte lie alleged -.as dup to the war. Though it was impossible to direct some or the wc-altn which ho said had been derived by wool kings into tho pockets oV tiuv workers the least, they could do was t/> see t'^t the health and education, of the; children-Avere looked ;vti/>n and pro.'iiotcd.