THE PRIME MINISTER.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5347, 5 November 1928, Page 4

THE PRIME MINISTER.

VISIT TO NGATEA SCHOOLADDRESS TO PUPILS. Prior to addressing the electors in the Ngatea Hall last Thursday the Prime Minister and Mrs Coates visited thq Ngatea District High School for a few minutes. Mr Coates was met by the headmaster, Mr W. Chappell, M.A., who; introduced him explained that the school was steadily increasing, and, that it would soon be necessary to have additional accommodation.

The Prime Minister spoke to the infants first, and then tc* thei seniors, urging them to take full advantage of the facilities offered them. He; spoke of the benefit of sne-rt in building, character, anjl expressed pleasure at knowing that the school committee was alive to the necessity c.f looking ahead in the matted' of adequate playing fields. New Zealand, he said, was prominent among the countries of the world, and' would 1 go down in history for th Q way it assisted education. Its ideal was to make its children healthy, and give them the best of education. As the prosperity of a country depended on its primary producers, the aim of education was net so much to produce professional men but to guide; and train for farming vocations. It was hoped; to place agriculture in the forefront of education, in the futures Concluding, the prime Minister said .that New Zealand children had a giea.t heritage, as their country stood high ini the opinion of tlie r.est of tiiq world..