TEMPERANCE INSTRUCTION IN SCHOOLS.

White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 263, 18 May 1917, Page 6

TEMPERANCE INSTRUCTION IN SCHOOLS.

Wellington, 18th April, 1917. Dear Madam,—With reference to the * . representations made by the deputation from the N.Z. W’omen’s Christian Temperance Union, which waited upon me at Auckland on the 29th ultimo, urging that scientific temperance instruction in public schools be made compulsory instead of optional as at present, I desire to inform you that one of the amendments to the syllabus recently gazetted specifies that all tea-, chers are to make a special record in their work-book of tempermce lessons giv»>n to their classes. This will ensure that such lessons are duly attended to. During the complete revision of the syllabus, which will take place 1 later in year, it is hoped to outline a’ definite course of temperance instruction. W ith respect to the request of the deputation that students in Training Colleges should be thoroughly grounded in the subject of scientific temperance before being sent out to teach, you will be pleased to learn that the Department has recently ordered a large supply of charts and instruction books from the W.C.T.U. of Illinois, and it is proposed to forward some of these to the Training Colleges in order that voting teacher may be show n how to deal with the subject.■▼► Yours faithfully, J. A HANAN. Miss Henderson, Corresponding Secretary, Women’s Christian Temperance, Union, Fendalton, Christchurch.