MANUAL TRAINING.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4575, 15 June 1923, Page 3

MANUAL TRAINING.

SCHOOL AT PAEROA M ANTEO. COUNTY COUNCIL SUPPORT, k- At the meeting of the Qhinemuri ' County Council yesterday a letter '•was read from the secretary the aPeroa District High School Committee asking the Council to assist in obtaining a manual and technical high school in Paeroa. The . letter pointed out the disabilities unde->- which the children were at present placed by .having to travel a : long railway journey. The committee asked that the Council send a strongly worded resolution to the Minister of Education asking that such school be established. The chairman said he was aware - that the committee had made repeated representations to have a school established in Paeroa. He was of ; the opinion that what good the chil- < dren gained by travelling to the ■ manual school was lost morally. He was strongly against the children beS ing expected to undergo the disabilities to obtain their education. Paeroa ' was a natural centre, and he consid- \ ered that the Department of Education should be urged to immediately establish a manual training school'in Paeroa. It appeared to him, from his own observations and inqiuries,. that Paeroa was being deliberately sidetracked in. the matter by the Department.

Or. Johnstone supported the resolution of the. chairman. He said that the claims of Paeroa had apparently been ignored, and he agreed that the committee should be strongly supported in its most necessary! undertaking. It was fully time that something was done, and there was no doubt that the children were placed at'a disadvantage in receiving a very necessary part, of their education. The motion was carried unanimously.