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I am also grateful for the ready co-operation I have received from Education Boards and their officers and the Boards controlling post-primary schools, from the Senate of the University of New Zealand and the University College Councils, from the staffs of the training colleges, from School Committees and Parents' Associations, as well as from teachers in all branches of the Education service. The Education Boards' Association and the School Committees' Federation have been particularly helpful in assisting the Government to carry out its educational policy, and to them I extend my thanks also. I desire, too, to acknowledge with appreciation the helpful co-operation given by the New Zealand Educational Institute, the Secondary Schools' Association, the Technical School Teachers' Association, the Women Teachers' Association, and the Men Teachers G-uild. In their several spheres the Workers' Educational Associations, the Association for Country Education, the New Zealand Library Association, the Women's Institutes, and the Women's Division of the Farmers' Union have earned warm praise for the work they have done in the furtherance of adult education. Reference is made earlier in this part of the report to the work of the Child Welfare Branch of the Department. This branch has the willing co-operation of a number of outside organizations and individuals, and to them I wish to pay a sincere tribute for their share in the important work entrusted to this branch. I wish to express my appreciation of that part of the work performed by the officials of the Childrens' Courts, Magistrates, special Justices, and honorary Child Welfare Officers. In the introduction to this report mention is made of the fact that the New Zealand Council for Educational Research was reporting on the intermediate school. To this I would add that the Council, the Director, and the staff have always been willing to help in the study of educational problems, and their valuable assistance is freely recognized. The contributions to educational literature made under the auspices of the Council have been of distinct value and have placed teachers and others in possession of much very useful information in connection with the New Zealand education system, its origin, its growth, and its possibilities of development.

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