DIFFICULTIES AHEAD
EDUCATION IN NEW ZEALAND EXCEPTIONAL BIRTH RATE P.A. AUCKLAND, Dec. 10. Education in New Zealand had major problems to face in the next few years, said the Minister of Education, Mr McCombs, addressing the Auckland Education Board to-day. This year there were 50,000 births, but school accommodation was based on an annual birth rate of 30,000 to 35,000. He added that there was no reason to expect the birth rate to fall, and, therefore, 20 per cent, more primary schools and teachers would have to be provided, but it would be a tremendous job to maintain the standard of education. , Concrete and steel were the mam shortages for the supply of new buildings, and meanwhile they had to push, ahead with wooden buildings. Cabinet had discussed the use of Ardmore aerodrome buildings as a temporary training college and school of engineering. With building materials short, it would take five years in building a training college. The Minister said he favoured schools where grades of commercial courses were taught alongside academic courses, but he thought there were grounds for having separate agricultural schools. The difficulty in supplying text books was not in printing, but in binding, he said, answering a question.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26641, 11 December 1947, Page 6
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202DIFFICULTIES AHEAD Otago Daily Times, Issue 26641, 11 December 1947, Page 6
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