SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1919, Page 7

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.

REGULATIONS FOR CONVEYANCE OF CHILDREN. A memorandum was before the Eduentino Board at its meeting on Wednesday setting out the new regulations regarding the conveyance of children to public schools, and board of children while attending schools. The memorandum stated that, to assist in making arrangements for conveyance and board of children attending public schools, the Department will make grants in aid as follows: — (a) Sixpence per return trip for each child over five years of age conveyed to the nearest public school, provided that the home is over three miles from the school by the nearest rpad in the case of a child ten years of age or over, and not less than two miles in the ease of a child under ten years. (b) Sixpence per return trip for each child over five years of age conveyed -by ferry to enable him (or her) to attend a public school. (c) Eightpence per return trip for each child where the distance to be covered exceeds five miles. (d) Two-thirds of the recognised vale (subject in each instance to the approval of the Department on the recommendation of the Board and the senior inspector of schools) in the case of a child using a horse or pony as a means of conveyance where roads for wheel traffic are non-existent or are such a? to be dangerous or impassible for vehicles. (e) Five shillings a week for the board for each child over five years of age who through impracticability of conveyance has to live away from home in order to attend a public school; provided, that the home in which the child is boarded is distant from the school not more than two miles if the child is under ten years of age, and not more than three miles in any other case, and that the regularity of the child's attendance at school is at least 85 per cent. (f)) Half the amount expended by the Board on the conveyance (including ferrying) and board of all children over five years of age in excess of the allowances received under (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e). Bicycles are excluded from the means of conveyance on account of which the allowance will be made. Payment of board allowance will be made to the nearest whole week, ten half-day attendances being reckoned as a whole week. Payment for board of a child is to cease on the opening or reopening of a school in the locality of the child's home. In any system of conveyance organised by the board, or by the school committee, or residents of the localities concerned with the approval of the board, special consideration shall be given to the care of the younger children, and the arrangements should be made on as economical a basis as possible. All children to whom these provisions apply will come within the terms of those sections of the Education Act dealing with compulsory attendance. WHY SUFFER WITH ECZEMA? Why toss on your bed at night, and scratch your burning skin? Although Eczema is the most common of all skin diseases, and often results from a trifling exposure to heat or odd, do pot underestimate its danger, it often becomes chronic, causes dreadf'! suffering arid disfigurement, and c>' blindness, deafness, or loss of hair. Anna, the Rapid Healer, is a dire ' n' to Eczema, as well as to all olin-r skin disRexona will make your skin healthy, destroy the germs of the disease for ever, and cause the building up of new skin tissue. A hot- bath with Rexona Soap, gentle anointing with Rexona Ointment, a pleasant treatment, result—sleep quietly, skin soothed and healed, while soon all trace of the disease leaves you. You are 1-ealthy. Eczema yields to the powerful healing influences of Rexona, the Rapid Healer. | Price,'l/6 and ?/- Obtainable every: *vi«»ra.