EDUCATION IN COUNTRY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 826, 21 November 1929, Page 7

EDUCATION IN COUNTRY

COMMITTEE AT PUKEKOHE INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS PUKEKOHE. Wednesday. | 'lie Education Committee of Ind,:;• : 7 visited lie- Pukekohe Technical ltlt r.cv by Air. F. Perkins, ehairnvm Managers. The committee* inspected the school ! and saw various phases of work, and I -übs.-tiuently visited Pukekohe .Hill • ■ nd Air. C. A. Willis's pedigree Jersey r -' ! ' n V uh ” ,c ’ instruction is given to ' dug t g lit m-a I cours V deputation from tin Waiuku Commit!*- . headed by Air. </. 1 u f ‘*d. arg -1 tlm .-sp;blishment of a el: at Waiuku to ’ 1 v ' ''Tools adjacent to that centi the 1 1", . i i. At more. r< hli'd tl r argent had been j in- d-- ii'i-:;] other centres of the ’ . - ' l " fo!b• w in rotation. Tic asked the j "'•mmittoe to ascertain as to how parents would assist in transport. Following representations by the brd of managers, the Alinister ! agreed to male- a grant toward the! 4 ’"st ol enlarging the blacksmithing department at the technical high i school. Air. G. R. Him, on behalf of the board, made application for new grants toward ! • cost oi conveying pupils from outer districts to railway stations, in order to attend the school. Residents of Mangatawhiri requested the* Minister to provide a new means of transporting children to Pokeno station, as the present motor service would i»e discontinued at the end of the The Bombas’ School Committee made a similar request and suggested that primary school pupils receiving manual training at Pukekohe attend for one week in each term, instead of one day : . fortnight, as at present. It was also urgct.l that as tanning was becoming i more scientific that a suitable system of bookkeeping be inaugurated fo pupils taking the agriculture course. in reply, the Minister said he realised i tlic important role that farming played J in the Dominion and stated he would i do everything within his power to foster j it. It was his desire to give children | attending country schools the same facilities as those in the towns. - ■