Kindergarten Appeal Plans

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31097, 28 June 1966, Page 2

Kindergarten Appeal Plans

Delegates from the newlyformed kindergarten committee in the Bishopdale area were welcomed to their first meeting of the delegates counci] of the Christchurch Free Kindergarten Association by the president (Mrs A. J. D. Dearsley). Bishopdale is the 41st committee affiliated to the association.

Applications for next year’s course at the Christchurch Kindergarten Training College will close on August 12. The selection committee will interview applicants early in the third term. Preliminary arrangements were discussed for the Daffodil Day street appeal to be held in September. Each committee has agreed to give six aprons to a stall.

Mrs Dearsley said the principal of the training college (Mrs E. B. Dalmer) had expressed her gratitude at the number of mothers who had offered to allow first-year students to visit their homes to observe the physical and mental growth of their pre-school children. Members elected to the board of studies, an advisory committee which deals with the training of kindergarten teachers, were.—Chairman, Dr. J. F. Mann; regional members, Mesdames A. F. Johnson, M. Leask, M. Whiteley; Mesdames I. H. Beardsley, A. J. D. Beardsley, A. M. Steven, Mrs Dalmer, Misses J. E. Hay, M. Donald, M. Simpson.

Nursery Sold.—Mr and Mrs E. J. Craig, of Royston, British Columbia, ended 30 years of growing rhododendrons and azaleas when the Vancouver Parks Board bought their 10,000 plants for 15,000 dollars.