AUCKLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
(Feok Our Own CoBBESPONDBIPr.) AUCKLAND, January 23.
The Board of Governors of the Auckland! Grammar School has decided to make a, rule in future whereby the parents and! pupils may be required to sign a bond£l Chat, the children will attend the 6choot sufficiently to ensure for them some pro< gress in matters eoholastlo. According t<s a motion that was passed, pupils musij attend 80 per cent, of the open daye« except in cases of illness or unavoidably absence. At the present time a comparatively large number of ohildren berin thq. year, but, as' opportunity offers In th.4 shape of employment, they drop out ons by ,one, thereby 'doing no real good at all - during a too brief course at the beginning of the year. The necessary teachers ar| provided by the board, but owing to thnl> steady falling away in th© school rot the number of masters towards the close oj the session is really more than there U ' necessity for, and the board fa taking steps to stop a practice that of lete year/ in all the big centres of education had-" had a very b*d affect on tha instruction eg th« young*
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Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 4
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198AUCKLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 4
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