DRIFT TO CITIES
COUNTRY CHILDREN “There is something wrong in our education system to-day/’ said Mr J. N. Massey, M.P., when officially declaring the new infant building at the Patumahoe School open. “We find that even in country towns, such as Waiuku and Pukekohe, the majority of boys leaving school do not go on the land, but enter occupations in the towns. The official figures confirm this.’’
“Our great primary industry—farming—is facing a crisis. While it is not stagnating, it is not making the progress it should when we consider that the prosperity of the Dominion depends of it,” continued Mr. Massey.
“It is our bounden duty in the interests of New Zealand to encourage children to take up farming pursuits,” he added, “and to do what we can to counter the drift to the cities. I strongly favour an agricultural bias in education.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20099, 20 November 1939, Page 11
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144DRIFT TO CITIES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20099, 20 November 1939, Page 11
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