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BARRAGE TO
HELP INFANTS
The Kindergarten Union's 'Bar-
rage Week' next week will be
a novel appeal not designed for
funds but to create public in
terest in the kindergarten move
ment.
'We are asking the .public to un
derstand more about kindergarten,'
the acting-principal of the Kinder
garten College (Miss Dorothy Colley)
said today.
. 'We will hold a public meeting in
= Trinity Hall on May 12 to tell them
what the movement is doing. We
have circularised over 50 bodies, re
presenting all shades of public
opinion, asking them to be present.
'And we want them to understand
so that they can actively support us
in an appeal to the Government for
a grant of £3000 instead of the pre
sent grossly inadequate £800.'
Miss Colley addressed the Federa
tion of University Women today, ap
pealing for their support.
In her address she pointed out
how in Perth kindergartens in
poor centres children were actu
ally suffering: from undernour
ishment, instancing the case of
one centre where ravenously hun
gry toddlers had to be given
three helpings of each course at
the midday meal which the kin
dergarten provides.
The free kindergarten movement in
this State, she said, is now serving
500 children, but there are on an ave
rage of 18,000 pre-school children who
would beneAt enormously by the
work of the movement, which should
be extended. '
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