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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 15161, 19 December 1949, Page 2

OUT AND ABOUT

Habit Of Study The value of regular homework if lasting benefit is to be gained from a high school education is stressed by Mr O. J. Begg, rector of the Palmerston North Boys’ High School, in his annual report. ‘'The habit of regular steady work,” he contends, “is indispensable to progress both in school studies and after life, and parents should see that nothing but illness is allowed to interfere with regularity of homework.” Lesson In Democracy “One of the best lessons in what our democracy means to us is what we have seen here today," said the Rt. Hon. W. Nash, speaking at the closing ceremony at the Hutt Valley Memorial Technical College. "The first pupil to come forward to receive a prize came, or' his parents did, from the land of India, one of the gems in our Commonwealth of Nations, and the second, a member of Chinese nationality, that distressed country which is suffering so much from the doctrines of a country which is the reverse of a democracy,” It said much for our democratic principes, Mr Nash continued, that these boys, and another Chinese boy who had come forward later, should be being turned into good New Zealand citizens. “The only thing we have against the Chinese is that on the average they work harder than we do,” remarked Mr Nash. “They are indeed in this respect an example to us.”