for
teachers; this year the number is expected to be 84.

(_b_) By the use of the "pool" housing scheme administered by
an Inter-departmental Pool Housing Committee. Under this scheme, a
proportion of all new State houses erected is set aside for letting
to State employees and teachers on transfer. The Department of
Education is represented on the Committee that makes the
allocations and represents the needs and interests of the teachers
and the schools. Most of the areas concerned are in housing
settlements.

(v) _Facilities for Recreation._--The use of school grounds and
buildings after school hours is entirely in the hands of boards and
local committees. The Department has no direct authority in the matter,
but does facilitate and encourage such use. Practice varies, but in
many schools very great use is made of school facilities for community
purposes. The work in this respect will be made more effective by the
decision taken at the beginning of 1955 to build halls in all new
post-primary and intermediate schools built to the new designs, to
re-introduce the L2 for L1 subsidy up to L4,000 for halls in primary
schools and to give a pound-for-pound subsidy up to L4,000 on gymnasia
in post-primary schools. Approval has just been given, on an
experimental basis, for a subsidy on a gymnasium and cafeteria in one
intermediate school in Auckland, with the express condition that it be
used "to provide recreational and cultural facilities for young people
who have left school".

The Committee recommends these opinions for the consideration of the
Government.

(_f_) Research Into Juvenile Delinquency

The Mazengarb Committee was of opinion that there should be a long-term
study of the problem of delinquency. As a matter of fact the present
Committee heard evidence on this suggestion from several witnesses, and
we were greatly impressed by what we heard. It goes without saying that
if one would seek a remedy for a given problem a thorough diagnosis of
the problem itself is a fundamental prerequisite. First let us find the
facts; let us know what is the nature and extent of the evil; let us
get as much data as to its causes and incidence. With that material in
hand we should be in a better position to search for useful methods of
treatment. This task of fact finding would be a long and arduous one;
it would need to be entrusted to experts of wide knowledge and
experience. A start has