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Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1930, Page 9

“Standardisation is a necessary part of the present system of examinations, just as standardisation applies to any commodity,” said a speaker at a meeting of the Auckland Educational Conference. “Are children’s brains a commodity?” asked a teacher. “Not exactly,” replied the first speaker, “but they are bought and sold.” “The community- has yet to real’se the extent to which physical and mental disease is due to social environment,” said the Rev. T. A. Halliday, at the annual meeting of the Auckland .Social Workers’ Association. The total of 5900 officially-recorded cases of insanity in New Zealand, or one in every 230 persons, is an alarming figure, and should awaken the public to the fact that a grave social-problem is here to be Jaced.”