BREAD
Sir,—On July 23 I called attention to the astonishing statement made by Mr S. J. Irwin, chief inspector to the Canterbury Education Board, that “we make a fetish of arithmetic. In everyday life the average man required only to be able to count his change." We can now. understand a little better the Labour Government’s educational aims as enunciated by Mr Irwin, because the “average man" (or his wife' who can use a kitchen scales knows now that the Labour Government’s regulations sanctioned the sale of short-weight bread. Mr Poison described the regulations as a “shabby stratagem” to keen down the apparent price of bread and while Mr Fraser calls it a “straight-out” transaction, two of his Ministers have now to prepare information to explain it to Parliament! A knowledge of weights and measures also gives the “average man" a guide to intelligent Parliamentary voting.—Yours, etc.. R. FINCH. Oamaru. August 5. 1943.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24020, 7 August 1943, Page 6
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