TEMPERANCE TEACHING.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8910, 2 September 1907, Page 2

TEMPERANCE TEACHING.

Press Association. Wellington. September 2. A deputation from the Now Zealand Alliance waited on tho Minister of Education to-day in regard to the teaching of hygiene and temperance in the primary schools of the colony.

| The liev. Mr Dawson said they regarded temperance teaching as an absolute necessity. He urged Government to arrange for these subjects being taught and to appoint specialists who would undertake or supervise the work. Other speakers supported the request. The Minister said all know how much ho was in sympathy with the request but there were very conside r able difficulties in the way of doing all that was masked. Ho iwas endeavouring to work up a definite scheme of teaching hygiene and temperance by moans of the School Journal, but he found it very difficult, to go ranch further. However, he had asked Mr Hoghan, InspectorGeneral of Schools, during his visit to Great Britain and America, to find out what was being done and how it was done. He Hoped, as the School Journal developed, to get more and more information into tho hands of teachers and thence to children as to the effects of alcohol on the human system. He wished to do this without effecting any radical innovation.