SCHOOL AGE
("Post" Special Commissioner.)
MINIMUM TO BE RAISED TO SIX YEARS CLAUSE IN FINANCE BltL
WELLINGTON, Monday. A proposal to raise the minimum age of admission to primary schools from five to six years will he the subject of a clause in the Finance Bill which will he introduced in the House of Representatives to-morrow or Wednesday. It was at first *thought that this reeommendation of the National Expenditure Commission could be effected by regulation, but it is now. found that legislation is necessary. The Commission, in its report, stat^ ed that by raising the school age £11,000 annually could be saved and expressed the opinion that the adoption of the proposal would have no adverse effect on children. The effect which the proposal will have in years to come will be that
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 213, 3 May 1932, Page 5
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134SCHOOL AGE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 213, 3 May 1932, Page 5
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