DEFECTIVE CHILDREN
INVESTIGATION BY BOARD. A tour of New Zealand has been completed by members of the central clinic of .the Mental Defectives Board. ' Tliis marks anothei’ important step in the board’s activities. All the special schools in the country were visited and the children were examined individually. Persons who had written to the board for assistance were visited and the circumstances of each case were investigated. The board can now begin its classification of the children concerned.
It is expected that the first training place for children, at Templeton, near Christchurch, will be in operation by the end of next month. Fifty children will be accommodated in the building at present in course of erection. Until the Templeton institute is tested there will be no capital expenditure in the North Island, and the site for the first institution will not be chosen for some time.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1929, Page 2
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