ITEMS OF INTEREST

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13243, 20 January 1941, Page 2

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Standard of School Textbooks Since they had been adopted 12 of 13 years ago, textbooks in genera! use in primary schools through the Dominion had never been satisfactory, said Mr J. W. McGecliie. headmaster of the Parnell School. Much of the English, history a o (i geography material was not presented attractively, and there were too few exercises in these subjects a OO also In arithmetic. Especially i 0 country districts, he added, was 1 necessary for a textbook to be a fu ll and complete interpretation of titf syllabus, and with the present bootwork was suffering. It had been understood that new books had bee 0 begun two or three years ago, but nothing definite had been announced Petrol Coupon Frauds Several petrol resellers in Au fK ' land have been victimised by clever* ly-faked petrol coupons. Vario 0 - methods were employed to O s r figures correspond with the U“' i authorised numerals. Invariably o‘_ : tickets were used and extra added either by pen and india l o * ( or rubber stamp. The most elaborate and ingenious method was _ ] combine portions of two old ticket-' j in a way that made numbers corre- t spond with those authorised, matter how cleverly extra nunib e were added, the perpetrators of frauds were unable to overcome tc difficulty that the normal position t the figures in relation to the leu -‘ fng-was wrong.