MENTAL DEFECTIVES
PROTEST AGAINST BILL EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY At a meeting last evening, at the University College, held under the auspices of the Auckland Education Society, th© proposed Mental Defectives Bill was discussed. Mr. A. G. Lunn was in the chair and the speakers included Professors Anderson and Fitt and the Rev. H. K. Archdall. Mr. A. Beasley, pi*esident of the Auckland Public Schools’ Assistant -masters’ Association, condemned the kmj° Sal . to Place mentally-retarded in the list of defectives. FrcQuent changes of teachers and freQuent changes of schools were often easona for retarding the educational progress of children, he said, but pupils Placed in lower classes at school for such reasons were not necessarily backward either mentally or physic-
It was resolved to protest to the government in the following terms: in view of the extreme importance of jne matters proposed to be dealt with n the Mental Defectives Bill, this jneeting urges that the Bill should not ® passed this session, but that it more widely circulated and urther time given for much closer consideration of the proposals contained in it.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 28 July 1928, Page 5
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180MENTAL DEFECTIVES Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 28 July 1928, Page 5
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