TEMPERANCE TEACHING IN SCHOOLS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 3 September 1907, Page 2

TEMPERANCE TEACHING IN SCHOOLS.

l'er Press Association. Wellington, Monday. A deputation from the New. Zealand Prohibition Alliance interviewed the Minister of Education to-day with reference to the teaching of hygiene and temperance in the primary schools of the oolony. _ .j. itev. J. Dawson (Wellington) ' said they regarded temperance teaching as an absolute necessity. He urged the Government to arrange for these subjects being taught and to appoint specialists who would undertak or supervise the work. Other speakers supported the I request. The Minister said all knew how much lie was in sympathy with the request, but there were very considerable diflicultics in the way of doing all tliat was asked. He was endeavoring to work up a definite scheme of teaching hygiene and. temperance by means of the schoot'journal. He found it very difficult to go much further. However, lie has asked Mr Hogben, the Inspector-General, during his visit ' to Great Britain and America to find out what was being done, and how it was done. He hoped as the school journal developed to get more and more infor- ' illation into the hands of the teachers—and thence to the children—as to the effects of alcohol on the human svstem. He wished to do this without effecting my radical innovation.