TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4527, 14 February 1923, Page 2

TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

» SCHOOL COMMITTEE’S ACTIONULTIMATUM TO BOARD. The Paeroa District High School Committee has forwarded the follow-' ing letter to the Auckland Education Board :— “I am directed to inform you that my Committee, having regard to the disabilities the children of this town have to suffer in travelling 46 miles to attend manual classes, has reluctantly decided that during the wintv months the children of this school will not attend the manual training classes at Thames. “My Committee cannot agree that the children should be given extra tuition at Thames in the summer and autumn months to make up for the loss of' time, for it considers that suca a long railway journey, causing children to be away from their homes from soon after eight o’clock in the mornings till nearly six o’clock at nights', is too great a strain for it to be undergone any oftener than at present ; neither does it consider that the ordinary working, of the s'cn’ool should be interfered with any more than is done now. “My Committee deeply regrets that the Department cannot see its way to provide the children of such ’ a large school with the means of getting their manual education under proper conditions, and trusts that a reconsideration of the whole matter will cause the Department to see the justice of the committee’s claim that a manual training school should be established at Paeroa forthwith.’.’