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USE OF SCHOOLS BY ARMY

Institute’s Protest To Minister (P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 27. Opposition to the continued frequent use of school buildings, by the Army and hospital authorities was forcibly expressed by a deputation of the executive of the New Zealand Educational Institute which met the Minister of Education, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, today. While fully appreciating the present state of emergency and realizing that all demands of the Army are to be paramount, the deputation considered that ultimate victory would be of little value unless there was citizenship worthy of meeting postwar conditions, such conditions depending upon the work in schools now and for the duration of the war. The needs of the children, it was stated, were being given little consideration by certain sections of those in power, this being a distinct tendency on the part of the military and hospital authorities. Schools worthy of young folk had been built in recent years, and these were the very ones being taken over. Hospital boards were clearly making wrong use of the emergency regulations, which had not been introduced for the purpose for which they were being used. In the opinion of the deputation school buildings were being taken on very slender pretexts and more for the purpose of saving inconvenience than for meeting real emergencies. The Minister, in reply, said he appreciated that the position, was. unsatisfactory. It was his intention to take the matter up with the Department of Health.

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Southland Times, Issue 24834, 28 August 1942, Page 4

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USE OF SCHOOLS BY ARMY Southland Times, Issue 24834, 28 August 1942, Page 4

USE OF SCHOOLS BY ARMY Southland Times, Issue 24834, 28 August 1942, Page 4

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