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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1924, Page 6

Overlapping between secondary and technical education was the subject of reference by the chairman of the Wellington College Board of Governors (Mr. \V. F. Ward) at the annual breakingup ceremony of t'he Girls’ College. He noticed from a telegram from Auckland that the Minister for Education (Hon. C. J. Parr) proposed, to ask a leading educational authority from Australia to report• on the matter. Personally, he thought the matter could be very well dealt with by a New Zealander, but that was the Minister’s business. However, he agreed that there was a need for such a report. His opinion, and in that a good many people shared, was t'hat the secondary schools of the Dominion were becoming too large. There were too many in the schools. The expenditure on education was enormons, and 'it Stood to reason that they should see to it that the country was adequately benefited by the expenditure. He believed that the selection of secondary school pupils should be carried on under stricter conditions, and that the remainder should be drafted into the technical schools.

A# a result of the ante-natal clinics New Zealand was breaking all records in looking after her children, declared Sir Maiy Pomare. Minister of Health, in opening the children’s ward at the Wairau Hospital. The death rate at birth had been reduced to practically nothing, and t'his was a rebord for the world. The Government had devoted a sum of money for training nurses for the antenatal work, and this again would help the children immensely. When the child arrived at school age it again came under* the care of the Government, and only this, year 107,060 child en came under the medical inspector® of schools. Thus, the general physical welfare of the children received attention, while their teeth were, also attended -to, and 370,000 operations on children’s teeth had been (performed during the time that the dental clinics had been in existence. This showed that the Government was doing a great deal for the children.

“We have in this country as many hospitals as are needed at the present time,” stated Dr. Valintine, DirectorGeneral of Health, in an address at Blenheim, at the opening of the children’s ward of the Wairau Hospital. “We do not require more beds for the sick, but we do need more maternity beds. From now on we must look to the matter of increasing the nutm-ber of maternity beds. This institution, which has developed a great deal, is quite large enough for your requirements for many years to come, and so I trust there will •be no demands for extra additions to the hospital—not merely from ’ the Treasury point of view, but from the point of view of the health of the country and Marlborough in particular. If you require more beds it will be only on account of some extraordinary development, which all would deplore. The health of the country is excellent, and, unless we have something quite unprecedented, you have enough beds to carry you on for &, great many years ,tp

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