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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2942, 30 November 1916, Page 7

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.. 6 HIGH SCHOOL AT THE HUTT. Lower Hutt is' agitated considerably over tho decision of tho Education" Department to close up the Hutt District High School, and centre tho high school training in the' Petone High School. A protest was received at yesterday's meeting ■ of the Education Board against this action from the High School and Eastern Hutt School Committees, which, boiled down, meant that a trifling economy only would be offected, and that at tho.expeuso of the children of the Hutt district. Tho chairman (Hon. J. G. AV. Aitken) moved that the protest be forwarded on to tho Education Department, in order that it may ho considered by the Council of Education when tho matter is reviewed. Mr. E. P. Rishworth, who seconded the motion, said that tho change, according Ho tho Department, involved tho saving of £100. Ho had worked it out to bo much less, but this trifling saving was to be made at the expense of the children's education. There was a new Minister of Education, and a new Director, and as new brooms they wero swoeping clean. The whole policy was a : cheesepairing one. It was evident again in tho raising of tho standard for proficioncy certificates, which would deprive rcany children of tho opportunity of secondary education. A protest should be made against this, and in no uncertain manner. Tho motion was carried. At a protest meeting held in tho Lower Hutt Council Chambers on Tuesday evening it was unanimously decided: "That this publio meeting of householders of Lower Hutt emphatically protests against the disestablish-' rnent of the Hutt District High School, and that the meeting forms rtsolf into • a deputation to wait on the Minister of Education at a timo to bo arranged by tho members for tho district."