OPENING OF SCHOOLS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 332, 13 January 1937, Page 6

OPENING OF SCHOOLS.

* O » Nd Date Fixed Yet, Says i * Minister. : decision has yet been made ' alK>'< the df-e of -eopsnb - schools throSXhdbt the . Dominion, ’ said the I Hun. P. Fr:..-,-r in Invercargill. The | Minister was asked th e probable ef- ' feet of the present epidemic of in- i fantile paralysis on the date for the t beginning of the school year, and he [ said that the position was receiving j close consideration, but there was no announcement y<t to be made. There has been much conjecture, among parents, and among school teachers on holiday, about the effect of the epidemic on the reopening, and an opinion is held that if the epidemic continues throng!' January, there may be an indefinite po.- ponement of the opening of the first school term. It such a postp.nement Is made i any school tea i.-rt consider that there will be simitar ■ arrangeme:; s to those made at the | time of the last serious visitation ot i the disease, in 1325, to conduct tuition by Corr, spondence classes, so that when the school year doe resume. work will n< t have been so seriously retarted.