SCHOOL BOOKS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20619, 8 August 1932, Page 3

SCHOOL BOOKS.

REDUCTION IN COST. IMMEDIATE OPERATION. . The Hon. R. Masters, Minister for Education, who arrived in Christchurch an Saturday morning, announced that he had concluded negotiations with the publishers of the primary school books used throughout the Dominion, which would have the effect of bnngiug uoout an immediate reduction ot *£l\ per cent, in the present retail prices paid by parents for the purchase of school hooKS for their children. The Minister made it clear that the new arrangement is not to apply to the Beacon Readers, which are an English production, but it will embrace the following books, all of which are published in New Zealand:—Tiny Tots' primers, Progressive primers, and the English, arithmetic, history and geography oooks for Standards I. to VI. Quality the Same. "In view of the hard thnes the people generally are experiencing," Baid the flinister, "I feel sura the reduction will be regarded with satisfaction by all the parents who have children in the schools. The present contract for the supply of books does not expire until the end of next yenr, but I am pleased to say that the reduction in the present retail prices will operate immediately. The existing prices of the books range from 6d to 2s 3d. and the new arrangement will thus bring the the range from 5d to Is 9d. Moreover, the quality of the books will be the same as at present, "The Alternative to the new arrangement was the preparation of material and the printing of a U entirely fresh sot of hooks for use in 1034. It will be seen, therefore, that the expense pf providing every child with a new set of hooks w'H be avoided, and. rvliPre possible the practice of handincr nn booH to anotjier member nf the fnmilv ran be continued with advantage to the pockets of the people." WHERE'S YOUR GINGER ? ;♦ - ! You must have ginger Whether you've got a job. . ! Or have to find a job, You must have ginger To do yourself justice. The man wit*' mental and physical i«p Goes rifiht ahead. Took after yourself. Rebuild those nerves with Marshall s Fospherine, The proved and popular nerve food. Thousands swear hv it. , Marshall's Fospherine in the six-sid?a carton. , . , . 100 doses 2s 6d at all chemists and stores.