PROPOSAL TO TRANSFER WANGANUI VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE CENTRE

Wanganui Chronicle, 14 December 1949, Page 6

PROPOSAL TO TRANSFER WANGANUI VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE CENTRE

t - I A motion viewing with alarm the y need for closing the Wanganui Voca--11 tional Guidance Centre, due to the 11 small volume of work passing through - it, and insisting that if the centre is i; transferred to Wellington, vocational 1 guidance officers pay regular visits to schools in the district, was carried by - the Wanganui Education Board at its - monthly meeting yesterday. e The motion was moved by Mr N. e Bromiley (Waverley), seconded by 1 Mr I. W. Mudford (Foxton), after the - department had stated that much of e the work done by vocational guidance t officers could be done almost as readi ily from the Wellington centre. The i department contemplated closing the Wanganui centre and transferring it to Wellington, but if this were done every endeavour would be made to provide for country schools in the - board’s district. s “I would be very sorry to see that e change,” said Mr F. C. Jannings e (Wanganui). Vocational guidance e was very important. There came a .« period when boys and girls must - i make a decision regarding their iue tures and to discuss their problems e with a vocational guidance officer - personally was far better than dealing e with him by correspondence. e *“lf energetic and keen, a vocational guidance officer can find plenty - of work to do,” Mr Jannings added. •, “He should not wait for work to - come to him.” ;. Mr Bromiley said that he agreed - with Mr Jannings, but the point i which concerned him, and in this he - may be wrong, was that in his opinion - vocational guidance officers did not go r about enough. Local district high e schools were growing with a consequent expansion in Ihe work of these - officers. They should visit hi£h i schools twice a year because these | - i were the places where they could do y jthe most good. | After Mr Bromiley had moved his 1 motion, Mr Jannings said that visits y ito schools were not. so important as e (following up young people after leave ' Ing school. /| Mr E. R. Hodge: Is that not a matsiter for the apprenticeship committee? 2 I believe they are doing very good I (work. i! Mr Jannings: lam very much conII cerned about that period between 51 leaving school and when they are established as adults. t j Mr Bromiley: I agree with that, but - I would like to see my motion secS.onded and carried. We, as a board, l are concerned about the welfare of 2, children before they leave school. J I After Mr Mudford had seconded - the motion, Dr. W. J. Jordan (Oha>(kune) said that the Education De- • partment’s proposal to transfer the ' .Wanganui Vocational Guidance Cen- ' tre to Wellington seemed to be another move toward centralisation, I which had already been carried too Mr Bromiley’s motion was carried.