CHILDREN’S FEET

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20738, 23 February 1939, Page 2

CHILDREN’S FEET

PROTEST BY A PARENT BOARDS TO BE CONSULTED - (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday A report that final arrangements for a survey of children’s feet in the four centres, embracing primary and secondary schools, had been made by the footwear committee of the New Zealand Footwear Manufacturers’ Association, so that standards might be laid down for lasts for children’s shoes, was referred to by Mr T. W. McDonald at to-day’s meeting of the Wellington Education Board. The mother of a child of school age had waited on him In a frantic condition protesting vigorously that she would not allow the sanctity of the person of her child to be interfered with in such a way. Mr McDonald said it was surely wrong to say that final arrangements j had been made when the board had not been consulted. The board would ! be wanting in its duty if It permitted j such a survey without the sanction of parents. The chairman, Mr W. V. Dyer, said he had been appointed by the board to the footwear committee set up at the instigation of the Standards Institute and he had attended one or two meetings. An approach had been made to the Education Department to obtain Its goodwill and sanction for the survey, and nothing was to be done without the sanction and approval of boards.