PRIMARY BOARDING FEES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 116, 19 May 1932, Page 5

PRIMARY BOARDING FEES

EDUCATION IN BACK-BLOCKS CORRESPONDENCE PROBLEM As a result of tlu stopping of boarding allowances for primary school chil dren who live too far away front schools to attend daily from their homes, 70 pupils will bo affected in the Wanganui Education Board area. At yesterday’s meeting of the board a letter was received from a settler who lived six miles away from the school which his two boys were at tending. They were receiving boarding foes which allowed them to board near the .school. The settler pointed out that to have the boys taught at. homo by his wife through correspondence lessons was impossible. To follow out the argument, of cutting down ex penses, correspondence lessons could be made to apply to the towns. All knew what a storm of protest that would bring forth, vet the back-block settlers wore in a far worse position than those living in the towns from the aspect of correspondence teaching. “Theoretically it is all right—practically it is al] wrong,” remarked the chairman, Air. E. F. Hemingway, referring to tho correspondence system’s operation in the back-blocks. Tho meeting was informed that the matter had boon brought before the member of Parliament, for tho district as a special case of hardship, and was out of the hands of the board,