PROVIDING NEW SCHOOLS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1920, Page 5

PROVIDING NEW SCHOOLS.

T PRECEDENCE IN BUILDING,'"' MORE PAY. FOE TEACHER I By Telejisph.—Pre*» AuoeUUoa. ? ,!j Foxtoo, ta»)t tfjgL The Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister of ft cation, speaking, at tbe opening £ mony of a new- school tbi# aftetjS emphasised the fact that £7OO,OooX||r of school buildings wore either in eni of construction f.j>r else authorigtfr the Department. About £3oo,ooo*a had, however, not yet beenEducation Boards, and thiawaa duas< shortage of laibor, and more igpee* to a severe shortage of nmterialajT The new regulation, under whWtj§| essential buildings would be pehffi by the Government to bo builtJT hoped would help boards in epeadlii their building programmes. HedwßM all Education Boards to hasten as possible the construction of <3H Other people should wait, but dren should not wait. The priaQMgiijfl ordinary humanity dictated ttSfcTfljj children must be housed —'-rtjHM for school work before anything |X| Though the cost of building oottmfl tion was about 110 per cent. higWlfjll day than in 1914, tie Government, MH ising the needs d'f the children, vBH proceed vigorously. He- p;ropo4«d:»jjl summon shortly a" conference sentatives of Education Boards counsel with him as to the best BlSa of pushing on the building prognj3B| Perhaps a reform as building was that more teacher* oH be obtained. The Minister said he3ffl| posed to do, this by raising the ihH of the teacher.- He hoped very to make the teaching profesaioiljfflM attractive nb regards TemunetgZH and this would attract..voung at present sought employment in 'gEM directions. He wanted the best oFmH young people to take up teaching;' 111 Mrs. Parr, wife gf the Minister, Jm9 veiled a memorial to ex-pupil» WkeSH in the war. " '"'mßH