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MINISTER OF EDUCATION

HIS FIRST DUTY.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night.

The new Minister of Education, Hon. C. J. Parr, said in an interview that he intends to take up as his first task the overcrowding problem ,in schools. He has already had something to say about the conditions in his own city of Auckland, and ho has spent some time in acquiring a personal knowledge of the conditions in Wellington, where the state of things is considered to be almost as bad as |in Auckland. Fortunately, the very worst overcrowding is confined to these, two - cities. In Christchurch the evil is not very serious, and in Dunedin it exists hardly at all. Mr. Parr feels that his first important duty is to see that overcrowding is checked by the erection, as speedily as possible, of suitable school buildings. After faster, •by which time Mr. Parr should have been sworn in as Minister, lio intends to visit Christchurch arid* Dunedin to see what are the conditions of the schools' in these cities in respect to this evil ov overcrowding. "I consider this should be my first duty,'' said Mr.' Parr. '' I want to see that the conditions in every school are. made healthful. It is no use providing the best system of education for children if, at the same time, we house them in schools under crowded conditions, and so undo all the good work of the physical training we are at pains to provide for them.''

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Wairarapa Age, 26 March 1920, Page 5

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MINISTER OF EDUCATION Wairarapa Age, 26 March 1920, Page 5

MINISTER OF EDUCATION Wairarapa Age, 26 March 1920, Page 5

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