CORRESPONDENCE.
I he. l-.diLoi. > Sir, 1 would like to call your attention, and that of every voter in New Zealand, to what I consider a very serious defect in our Education Act which should be remedied as soon as possible, as it is gradually undermining and diverting children from the State schools in favour of private ones. Our Education Act, I am reliably informed, has no power to regulate the holidays of private schools. For instance, the private school here has had two holidays—they finished a fortnight’s holiday a few days ago, every day of which the parents who are loyal to the State school, it their children had been absent without a certificate, would be prosecuted and fined. Now, sir, as the elections will soon be here, every candidate should be pledged to get a clause put in the Act giving State supporters fair play, and as the ministers of one denomination are “button-holing” their followers to support candidates of their own persuasion, let us of the other denominations do the same thing.—l am, etc., Parent.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1019, 18 July 1911, Page 2
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177CORRESPONDENCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1019, 18 July 1911, Page 2
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