BOOKS FOR SCHOOLS
“ EXISTING PROVISIONS ADEQUATE” The Minister of Education (Mr R. M. Algie) believes that existing book services to schools are adequate. He has made this reply to representations by the conference of the New Zealand Educational Institute that increased grants should be made to all libraries serving schools and that sufficient funds should be provided to maintain a good range of books and periodicals for teaching literature, social studies, and nature study and also supplementary reading for junior classes. “I am very sympathetic to the spirit of this remit, and regard it as essential that schools should be well stocked with books of all kinds,” Mr Algie says. “At present books reach schools by various means, through the annual library grant, through subsidy of funds raised locally, through the National Library Service, and direct from the Education Department in the form of bulletins and journals. If the fullest use is made of the existing provisions, I feel sure that no school should suffer from lack of varied reading material.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26870, 24 October 1952, Page 12
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