SIX O’CLOCK CLOSING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1738, 17 July 1917, Page 3

SIX O’CLOCK CLOSING.

ACTION BY THE N.Z. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE. The Secretary of the N.Z. Educational Institute has forwarded (lie following circular letter to Education Board.-, governors of secondary schools, technical school hoards, and School Committees throughout the Dominion: — “I am directed by (he Executive of the New Zealand Educational Institute to suggest (o all bodies having a, shave in the educational work of the Dominion the propriety of urging upon the Government a favourable consideration of the claims of the youth of the Dominion in connection with the movement for the early closing of hotel bar-. The welfare of (lie nation depends upon the physical, moral and intellectual efliciem-y of its citizens, and efficiency depends on education. Many hundreds of young people are robbed of |heir educational opportunity by the impoverishment of their borne- through drink; whereby they arc deprived of (heir rigid to a fair clmiiee in life, and at the same time their value to the Slate is greatly depreciated. 1( i- suggested (hat it (hose Board- ami Commitlccs which agree with this brief statement of the case were willing to eoinnmni'•ale llieir views (o the Minister of Education and to the Member of I’arli.imenl for llieir" respective districts, such expressions of opinion would have great weight."