EMPHATIC PROTEST.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 373, 15 March 1932, Page 12

EMPHATIC PROTEST.

Students and Education Retrenchment.

Strong criticism of education retrenchment was expressed at the annual meeting of the Christchurch Technical College Past and Senior Students’ Association last evening when the following motion moved by Mr M. Anstiss and seconded by Miss A. Hughes, was carried:-

“ That this association, consisting of over 700 active members and representatives of many thousands of ex-stu-dents of the Christchurch Technical High School and night classes, wishes to register a respectful but emphatic protest to the Board of Governors against the following economies recently suggested by the Economy Commission set up by the Government, and to request the board to forward same to the correct quarter:— “ (1) The proposal to abolish secondary school free places for boys and girls over the age of seventen years, as this is calculated to throw a large number of the present student? on the employment market when they are unfitted for the present conditions, the proposal, therefore, definitely tending to increase unemployment in the Dominion.

“ (2) The proposal to abolish university bursaries, as calculated to prevent a great number of our best and most deserving students from the inestimable boon of university education.

“ (3) The proposal to abolish free transport for pupils, as a measure calculated to press more heavily upon one section of the parents than upon another, and, as such, productive of a definite differentiation between one class and another.”