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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 385, 8 November 1946, Page 29

UNIEI LAKOUR; BETTER 0467 IS . A RIGHT . NOT A PRIVILEGE Back in 1935, the Labour Party made a promise. They promised, if elected , to re-organise the whole education system, to introduce the most modern edu- cational methods and "to make the school life of the individual child more 1I profitable, happier and healthier: Inheriting a bankrupt education system , they set to work Those of you with children know how different school life is to-day how much greater the opportunities for a full and liberal educa- tion. Now Labour plans even more facilities for kindergarten, school and university education facilities from which no one will be excludedl KINDERGARTENS received no assistance in pre-Labour days: Now they receive LABOUR BRINGS= grants of E17, 0oo per year, and Labour plans to extend this help and train more kindergarten teachers. SECURITY TO SCHOOL AGES for primary school-children have been lowered from six to five for entrance and raised from 14 to 15 for leaving. SCHOOL CLASSES will" be reduced to 30 children per teacher as soon as accom- PABENTHOOD modation and supply of teachers allow. SCHOOL TEACHERS are being trained at three times the rate existing when Labour came to power. In training colleges, 1935: 428; 1946: 1 ,448. More children are being born to-day for the very simple reason that SCHOOL BUILDINGS have improved tremendously as a result of the E6,000, 0oo more people can afford to get married and have children: Up till spent on accommodation by Labour. Vigorous measures are being taken to over- now; 200,000 mothers have been provided with free maternity come wartime building arrears. benefits maternity doesn't mean financial handicap now. The FREE TEXT BOOK distribution will be extended until it is general throughout greatest family allowance scheme in the world gives 10/ a week primary and secondary schools. to every mother for every child_irrespective of the bread- winner S FREE DENTAL TREATMENT will be extended to secondary schools as soon aS income. That lightens the load for every family Sickness brings possible: no money worries under Social Security and even where the FREE APPLES AND MILK will be continued as a worthwhile health measure: breadwinner is ill there' S still an income for the family through COUNTRY CHILDREN will continue to receive increased facilities SO that their Sickness Benefits_ Free dental treatment at school age lifts still educational opportunities equal those of town children. Further agricultural high schools are planned: another burden from the family budget: Free school text books further LABOUR will provide all the facilities necessary to produce men and women will increasingly provide a saving: And; perhaps best of educated in the fullest sense of the word ~-mentally, culturally, physically and all, there's income security under a Labour Government, with the those facilities will be available for all: fear of unemployment banished for good: Let' $ keep it that way ~-let' S keep New Zealand the world's best place to live inl Let' 5 keep Labour on the jobl Kimow BETTER EDUCATION FOR