LABOUR LEADER'S TOUR

Evening Star, Issue 21746, 14 June 1934, Page 2

LABOUR LEADER'S TOUR

ATTACK ON EDUCATION MINISTER [Per United Press Association.] NAPIER, June 13.. In the course of an address to a largo audience in Napier to-night the Loader of the Opposition, Mr M. J. Savage, referred to the exclusion of five-year-old children from the public schools, and stated that the great majority of the people were against the Minister in the attitude he had adopted. Further, the future of the dominion would be decided largely by the standard of education of its citizens. In a comparatively short space of time these children would be assuming the responsibilities of citizenship, and their success or failure would depend upon the training they had received. No one was in a better position than the teachers to express an intelligent opinion as to age at which children should enter the schools, and yet when they ventured to do so they were told by the MiiKster that they were more concerned about their own positions than they were about the children. That did not appear to be “ playing the game,” and the sooner the people took a hand in the matter the better it would be for the welfare of the dominion. At the conclusion of the address resolutions of confidence in Mr Savage and the Labour Party and demanding the dissolution of Parliament not later than the end of the three-year period for which it was elected were carried.