PROFICIENCY CERTIFICATES
(To the Editor). Si,-, I read in your issue ol the 09th inst. that the Otago Education Board are protesting against the tightening up of the Proficiency Examinations this year. This will mean a small percentage of passes, therelore fewer pupils for the secondary schools next year and so a reduced Education vote. So far so good, but wliat about the children. Without a Proficiency Certificate a youth cannot get any position whatever in the Government service and so must increase the ranks of hewers wood and drawers of water. .Parents are very loth to take their children from school without a Proficiency Certificate and s «> wlll be compelled to keep them foi another ' year at the Primary School. a hardship on too many these bad times. Hoping that an abler pen than mine will further ventilate this subject. 1 am etc. father of eight. Hokitika. Oct. 31, 1931.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1931, Page 1
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151PROFICIENCY CERTIFICATES Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1931, Page 1
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