SCHOOL LEAVING AGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1941, Page 8

SCHOOL LEAVING AGE

RAISED IN NEW SOUTH WALES. GREAT EDUCATIONAL REFORM, i The Youth'Welfare Bill, the primary) object of which is to raise the school leaving age fr. m 14 to 15 years, hm passed the Legislative .Assembly ot New South Wales. The bill will uikf ctfect on January 1 l‘Ml. The school leasing age is advanced to 15 years m two years and lhrmii!l' three stage.-. For 1941. the age )• 14 years and four mi.nths. for 1942 14 years and eight months and 1943 and subsequent years the age r 15 years. Children who reach ‘he age of 14 years before Jami art 1, ISI4I will be exempt from tinre<ii!>rements <>f the Bill. 'The bill also empowers the Ministeri to establish an advisory committee on I v. itih welfare Tm- Minister fir Education, Mrj Drummond said that despite such facilities :. ; bw-siries amt technical e<iucu-j tion, if tins legrslat i<m was mil ptissi'd | 22 'l9O boys and girls between 14 andj 15 years of age would leave school n | ’941 In other words, he added. the| voluntary system of education beyond j 14 years, despite all the advantages of free tuition, had proved defective ;>< a! means <-f retain leg children beyond th< ■ * t s p.-i *• \ Tiu< iueretisa in the leaving age id <i. r.bwi b‘ a *;.eau. headmaster a-i the grea‘i ■' ’ u < ■. w..5 :t form < ‘ ma i.y t* 1 v. i.■ t.,-.e, . i;.l • .)< < ;>.:rt:> i: mt into dc;id-emi' jobs to übta;:, an- ther - • eh....him. a*, a! -;;i: .•: 'a. /de ■.<•• t ; .. ■<>.'. m-’.l :! WdF h.'iw- a w ri V.dm- They Will not be ■ .:! eiontly Sa to have tn*eij given I < ; < . ' i 11 i . 1 ‘Sa! a it. ’; 1 ! n> < i-apaido of sound and! ■ ... ■ : it ian . •: ..■:<• .< move towards direct,