NECESSITIES FIRST.
.. ” * MINISTER OF EDUCATION ON SCHOOL NEEDS. CLAIMS OF PRIMARY DIVISION. AUCKLAND, March 10. “Whatever else goes, the primary schools must be attended to,’’ said the Minister of Education (the Hon. R. A. Wright) speaking at Otahuhu to-day. “There are in New Zealand a number of cases of two teachers instructing, different classes in one Toom, and that is educationally wrong,” the Minister said. “The reason for this lies in the fact that the Department has been able to provide more rooms. That position,, however, must be met. We nUist provide the additional accommodation required in the primary schools, which are the foundation of our education system. Necessities must come first.” The Minister declared that he had been, taken to task in Wellington because he had stated that a school assembly hall and gymnasium were luxuries. His remarks had been construed as an expression of opinion that he did not believe in these adjuncts to schools. That was not the case; but he was not prepared, as Minister, to find the money for such things when primary schools, and secondary schools too, were lacking the essentials for their existence. “When I have found the money for essentials,” the Minister added. “I will be ready to spend on frills.”—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 11 March 1927, Page 5
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