SCHOOLS AND WAR WORK.
Mr H. A. L. Fisher, Minister for Education, states that he believes that 600,000 children have had their education curtailed in order that they might assist the country in the war. There were children who had been labouring in the field, the factor}'* and the mine. They had suffered injury to their educational growth which it would be very difficult to repair; but he had not forgotten them. In fact, he distinctly stated In the House, j when he introduced his Bill, that h*. j thoHght the care of these children I cught to be treated in an exceptional way and ought to be financed in an exceptional' measure.
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Taihape Daily Times, 10 July 1918, Page 6
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113SCHOOLS AND WAR WORK. Taihape Daily Times, 10 July 1918, Page 6
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