COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE
14 YEAR'S UNLESS PROFICIENCY CERTIFICATE. Wellington, Last Night. “Some parents seem to he under a misapprehension as to when lheir children can leave school,” stated Dr. J. VV. Mellwraith, senior inspector at a meeting of the Wellington Education Board to-day. Dr. Mellwraith pointed out that the leaving age was fixed at 14 years unless a pupil possessed a certificate nf proficiency in standard VI, in which case he could leave when he reached his thirteenth year, hut no earlier. A child who gained his proficiency before the age of thirteen could go on to a post-primary school or pass into the seventh standard of a primary school, but he could not leave school altogether.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4455, 22 May 1930, Page 3
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117COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4455, 22 May 1930, Page 3
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