SCIENTIFIC TEMPERANCE TEACHING.
A deputation representing the Women's Christian Temperance Union waited on the Minister of Education yesterday with a request that scientific temperance teaching should be made a compulsory subject in pub-
lie schools. The Minister, in reply, pointed out that the deputation apparently did not realise that the subject was compulsory. He quoted from the syllabus for Standard? 111. to V. to show that moral instruction had to be given, moral instruction relating to body and mind, and "temperance in eating and drinking," and "evil and unhealthy subjects." If the work was not being done id schools the syllabus was not being carried out. The Minister had no more power to enforce the syllabus than the President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Parliament would not give power.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3145, 24 March 1909, Page 4
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131SCIENTIFIC TEMPERANCE TEACHING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3145, 24 March 1909, Page 4
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