CHILDREN AND THRIFT.
A SCHOOLMASTER'S VIEWS. | . i I A suggestion that consideration mi^M Ibe given to tiio question of providing I football boots iit .Mount Cook School >o j that some of the poorer children would not have to play barefoot was opposed by Uu> headmaster, Mr. R. Dnrroch, at I a meeting of Mt. Cook householders, says ! the "New Zealand Times." Wellington. I Mr. Darroeli .-aid his observation* led j him to the conclusion that the children I attending the school spent hundreds of pounds a year on lollies, arid lie was convinced that it would he a pood thing to encourage the scholars to save their money and buy such things as playing material, rather than ask someone else to give it to the children. There were too many people to-day, Mr. DaiToch added, who wanted someone else to do everything for them —too many who I wanted everything done by the Govern-
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 107, 7 May 1924, Page 8
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