EDUCATION & WAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1941, Page 3

EDUCATION & WAR

MR MASON’S BUDGET SPEECH. GREAT DEAL BEING DONE “ IN SCHOOLS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Achievements of the Government in the field of education were reviewed by the Minister of Education, Mr Mason, in the House of Representatives last evening. He said that a great deal had been done, both in primary and secondary education. “I believe we have done a great thing toward making this a happier country if we can get boys and girls into the work for which they are most fitted,” the Minister said, in referring to the vocational training centres. “I look forward with great confidence to the work that will be done in these centres. A great deal has already been done, and more and more employers are coming to them to find boys’and girls most adapted to the particular work with which they are concerned.” Mr Mason also referred to the correspondence schools, the special training for backward children, new methods of physical culture training that had been adopted, the country library service with its valuable achievements and the native schools. A brief reference was made by the Minister to the training of New Zealand troops in the use of arms. He said that the- number of rounds of ammunition men up to the fourth reinforcements used for target practice, including machine-gun shooting, ran into millions before they left New Zealand. Many more millions of rounds were sent with them for further ■practice overseas. There was no lack of training either in New Zealand or overseas. All the men went through the complete war course in accordance with the regulations of the British Army.