EDUCATION FACILITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 59, 1 June 1927, Page 13

EDUCATION FACILITIES

DRIFT TO THE CITIES EFFORTS AT PREVENTION (Special to THE SUN. ) CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. In an attempt to check the flow of children from country schools to those of the cities the Education Department is endeavouring to provide secondary education in the country equal to that which is to be had at the city schools. With the idea of helping the department the High Schools and Hostels Committee of the Canterbury College Board of Governors, submitted the following recommendation to yesterday’s meeting of the board:—“That principals of the Christchurch Boys’ and Girls’ High Schools be required to inform all new pupils that certificates for free railway tickets will not be issued to any pupil residing nearer another high school, or district high school, and, further, that the Southland Technical College be informed that* this board cannot see its way to join in its proposed protest to the Education Department against the department’s present policy regarding the issue of tickets.’* The chairman of the committee, Mr. Aschman, explained that one of the great difficulties at the present was the flow of pupils from the country to towns and cities, and to prevent that the Government was trying to give country children as good a secondary education as could be had in towns. Anything that the board could do to help prevent pupils from coming long distances to city schools would be a distinct advantage. They could not prevent them from coming if they liked to pay their own railway fares, but the clause would be of assistance to the Government’s project. The clause was ndonted