CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUNDS

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14601, 26 February 1921, Page 5

CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUNDS

AND THE KINDERGARTEN. At the meeting of the. Hamilton Kindergarten Association, last night, Mr I-'. A. de hi Mare, in making a plea for the extension of the important work, said that he hoped some of the money now being collected for children's playgrounds would be devoted to the equipping of the free kindergarten. If the equipment was placed in the public parks there was a danger that it might"be misused. It, had been found by those controlling the various games in the town that their property was not respected by a section of the public: at Seddon Pork windows were constantly being broken, and the con ditions were :< disgrace. Playgrounds were a very fine thing, but. Ihere must be dii lion. He would suggest to the collectors that il was worth while considering the use to which the kindergarten could put, some of tin' money; they could use some of the money for equipment very well Indeed, with highly beneficial results to tin' vnung children. lie understood thai

the Children's Playgrounds Committee intended to rely on voluntary help for the control of the grounds and Ho' supervision of play. This had not always been found satisfactory. In America, where supervised play on properly-equipped grounds was largely carried out, they had trained instructors evervw here. i Über 'members of the Association endorsed Mi' de la Mare's views, and expressed the hope that the Association's work would be extended.