The Atmore Report, 1930

It also proposed that section 10 of the Education Amendment Act 1920 (which would make school attendance compulsory for every child from seven to fifteen) become operative.

[2] Harry Atmore, the New Zealand Minister of Education, was anxious to realise the policy and ideas set out in the Recess Committee's Report.

Before it appeared in print Atmore had already sanctioned revision of the primary school syllabus in a manner designed to allow "teachers as much freedom as they are competent to take to organise their teaching in any way that most appeals to them".

But Peter Fraser, as Labour's Minister of Education in the later 1930s supported many of the measures, including making school attendance compulsory from seven to fifteen which occurred in 1944.

[4] The Atmore Report played a crucial role in shaping the New Zealand Education System and is widely regarded as a charter for progressive educationists.