SECONDARY EDUCATION
RECREATIONAL COURSES WANTED. { Per Presi Association.] WELLINGTON, May 15. Containing a statement to the effect that more than half of the children of New Zealand, between the ages of 14 and 18 years were receiving no direct education whatever, a remit, considered to-day by the Technical School-teach-ers’ Association, led to a certain amount of discussion. The remit, which proposed recreational and cultural courses in evening schools as a remedy, was carried. It was introduced by Mr W. Harris, of Christchurch and was as foliows: — “That in the light of the fact that 51.2 per cent, of adolescent New Zealanders, between the ages of 14 and IS. are receiving no direct education, the Education Department should encourage the development of more recreational and cultural courses in evening schools.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 115, 17 May 1930, Page 7
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