HANDICAPPED.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17277, 13 December 1927, Page 8

HANDICAPPED.

COUNTRY SCHOOL CHILDREN. EXPENSIVE TRANSPORT. Parents of children travelling from Gordonton by ’bus to receive secondary and manual education at Hamilton, have to pay 10s weekly per child for transport. This fact was the subject of comment at last night’s meeting of the Hamilton Technical School Board by the principal, Mr W. Fraser, who said that while the Government assisted chidren coming in to the primary schools, the subsidy did not apply to children receiving secondary and manual training.

Mr Henderson said it was a great handicap to country children to be debarred from the educational facilities of the children of the towns merely by the fact of residing in the country, They should be able to receive the same educational opportunities as town children, but if their parents were going to be saddled with a burden of 10s per week for each child they sent in, many of them were going to miss these opportunities altogether. It was decided to write to Hon. J. A. Young in his capacity as member for the district on the matter.