TEACHING BY POST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 December 1940, Page 6

TEACHING BY POST

CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL BREAKS UP Al GREAT AND GROWING ESTABLISHMENT. MINISTER'S GOOD WISHES. WELLINGTON, This Day. The ceremony, of the breaking up of the Correspondence School - was held today at the Town Hall and broadcast for the benefit of parents and children, only teachers of the course being present. Mr S. H. Roberts, of Tokomaru Valley, chairman of the Parents' Association, presided, and both the Minister and Director of Education were present.

Mr Mason paid a tribute to the work of the headmaster and staff, and, in an address, made special reference to the building of New Zealand by the parents of country children. The Minister bore in mind, too, those children who were physically unable to attend school personally and extended the good wishes of the Government and himself and those of the school to the pupils and those associated with them for a happy Christmas and a good New Year J

The headmaster (Dr. Butchers), in his report, said that at the end of the second term this year, the enrolment in the Primary Department was 1,780 pupils and in the Secondary Department 1,251 pupils, an aggregate of 3,031. The number enrolled on the ground of physical disability was 317. The number of part-time students was 553 and of part-time adult students, 495. Other groups comprised 202 junior officers of the P. and T. Department and 58 teachers in Grade one and Native schools.