SCHOOL PUPILS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 108, 31 January 1935, Page 10

SCHOOL PUPILS

Uncertainty About Employment JUNIOR FREE PLACES Concessions Continued This Year , it was announced by the Minister of education, Hon. S. G. Smith, yesterday, that it is intended to continue the concessions that have been granted to fee-paying pupils in all types of Government post-primary schools for the past five years. Mr. Smith pointed out that though the position with regard to employment among' young people had improved very distinctly during, the past 12 months, there was, particularly in some districts, still a great deal of uncertainty as to their prospects of obtaining positions of any sort after leaving school. There were, unfortunately, many parents still in financial difficulty, and it had therefore been decided to continue for this year the concessions that have latterly been granted to junior and senior pupils in secondary, technical and district high schools. He had approved therefore of the extension of junior free places for an additional year for pupils at post-prim-ary schools who have not already held free places at the end of 1934, and also the extension to the end of the present year of the senior free places of pupils who will have attained the age of 19 years during the year, provided that in the case of both junior and senior free place, extensions the parent of the pupil proves to the satisfaction of the Director of Education that he is unable to provide the necessary fees for the tuition of his child after the expiry of his free place. In the case of the junior pupils, except under very special circumstances, no consideration will be given to any application for the concession if it is not made within a month after the reopening of the school. Parents will be expected in the first instance to apply to the principal of the school.