ion of the Department.

=(4) Relations With the Child Welfare Division=

From the evidence received it is clear that principals of schools would
welcome a closer liaison, by regulation, with the Child Welfare
Division. A high degree of co-operation already exists in some places,
but it depends on the personalities of the people concerned and is not
general.

With a full realization of the desirability of secrecy in the affairs of
a delinquent child, but also with the knowledge that the principal of a
school should know as much as possible of his pupils, and in most cases
has known them longer, and in conditions of less tension than the Child
Welfare Officer, it is suggested that:

(_a_) Where a child in a school, or transferred to it, has come to
the notice of the Child Welfare Division for acts of delinquency,
the principal of the new school should be informed.

(_b_) Where a pupil is to be charged before the Children's Court
the principal should be asked to make a recommendation regarding
the future of the child either independently of, or jointly with,
that of the Child Welfare Officer. At the present time the
principal is merely asked to report to the Child Welfare Officer,
although, from his longer experience of the child, he may be in a
better position than that officer to suggest what should be done.

=(5) Sex Instruction in School=

The views of the Committee on the whole subject of sex instruction are
given elsewhere in the report. Here it is emphasized that, apart from
the biological aspect as a part of nature study in the primary schools
and general science in the post-primary schools, the school in general
is not the place for class instruction in sex matters.

Incidental features of sex hygiene will arise naturally from physical
education and can be adequately treated there.

It is felt that the teaching of the fuller aspects of the sex relation
between men and women requires an emotional link between the teacher and
the taught, and it should not be looked on as a duty of the school to
forge this link. But where ignorance persists, through the failure of
the natural agencies, the school should try, if a suitable person is
available on the staff, or by the employment of a specialist, to remedy
the omission.

=(6) "New Education"=

Several witnesses have claimed that the philosophy underlying the New
Zealand education system is a predisposing cause of sexual delinquency,