KINDERGARTENS AT WORK

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 283, 19 August 1918, Page 3

KINDERGARTENS AT WORK

SOMETHING FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE, A demonstration. of the work done in the Free Kindergartens of Wellington has been arranged by the Free Kindergarten Association, and will be held in the Masonic Hall on'the afternoons of Tuesday, 'Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week. Four kindergartens will take part, the Berhampore. the Tiirahaki Street, Brooklyn, and Wellington South branches, and citizens interested in the vital part of Empire building that, education plays will see the processes by means of which the physical, mental, and moral powers of children are developed.

The need for better accommodation for tho main kindergarten and training centre for students is so great that with tho approval of the Men's Advisory Finance committee Ihe Kindergarten Council has arranged to 'buy n .property in Taranaki Street, upon which is a building which, with some few email alterations,, will be suitable for the next few years. It is in order to pay for this j>: perty thut funds are now urgently needed. Owing to the interest taken in education by the owner,'the association has been able to secure the section at very reasonable terms, viz., .£2460, of which .£750 is to be pnicl by September, and the balance, in not more than five years. The necessary alterations are estimated at £250, and it is this first thousand pounds which the public of Wellington nre asked to help to raise. The aura of is already in hand, and the council feels confident that it will not appeal in v.-iin for the remaining .£4OO, especially as the Minister of Education, speaking recently in Auckland, said that, urgent ns the need of the children under five years wnc=, hn did not think Cabinet could be perRtmdort to allot tho cC70,000 renuired, eOiouhl kindergarten work be taken up by the State, until the conditions developed by war should linve chanced.