OPEN AIR SCHOOLS
Praise For New Zealand System
By Telegraph—Press Association.
CHRISTCHURCH, March 27. Expressing high praise for New Zealand open air schools, Sir Bruce Bruce H. Porter, M.D.. K.8.H., said today that these schools should be copied iu ever;,’ country iu the world. Sir Bruce has now retired after a medical career in England, during which he look an active part in branches of medicine related to public health and welfare, ami in army medical work. He said he had been particularly impressed with the New Zealand open air schools. Other countries waited till the children were broken down in health before putting them into such schools. New Zealand was building them for children who were still healthy, and thus taking measures to preserve their health. He had been very much impressed by the low New Zealand death rate, but as he had not yet'fully investigated conditions here, he was not prepared to discuss other medical matters.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 156, 28 March 1939, Page 13
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158OPEN AIR SCHOOLS Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 156, 28 March 1939, Page 13
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