UNUSUAL VOTE,

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19648, 7 August 1935, Page 8

UNUSUAL VOTE,

PUPILS DECLINE HOLIDAY. ■ I KM— 1 MINISTER’S EXPERIENCE. (By Telegraph.—Press issoclatlon.) AUCKLAND, Tuesday. An unusual happening, of children at a school declining to accept a halfholiday occurred to-day. The Minister of Education, the Hon. S. G. Smith, who is visiting Auckland and inspecting schools, adopts the. practice of asking the children to hold up their hands if in favour of a half-holiday. Yesterday he visited the various grammar schools and found the pupils unanimously favourable to the halfholiday idea. To-day he went to the primary school al Pakuranga, but when Jie took a vote there were only a few tiny children in the 'front row who raised their hands, and they quickly lowered them on observing that the older children had not raised theirs. The Minister indicated that the school would have to take a half-holi-day at a later stage, for he had previously arranged at the neighbouring school of Ilowick for a half-holiday. The Pakuranga children would have to ■take their medicine as it would not be fair not to give them a holiday when the Howick children would be getting one. It may be mentioned that the voting at Howick was not unanimous, one youngster having looked round and lowered his hand again. 'The Minister commented: “ You should make up your own mind. I have seen men in Parliament do that.”