COMPULSORY TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
[BX IBLBSBAPH — SPECIAL TO THB POST.] WAIMATE, This Day. At a meeting of householders last night under the auspices of the school committee it was resolved that the incoming committee be asked by virtue of the provisions of the Education Act Amendment to request the Education Board to make regulations bringing into force the compulsory technical education of all boys from 14 to 17 years of age inclusive in the Waimate school district who have not passed the fifth standard. So far as is known Waimate is the first committee to exercise the local option given school committees in this matter. °The meeting, included all members of school committee and several technical managers. The latter held that the machinery of the law was defective but were anxious to push, the Act to breaking down point.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 93, 21 April 1911, Page 7
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138COMPULSORY TECHNICAL EDUCATION. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 93, 21 April 1911, Page 7
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