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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27500, 6 November 1954, Page 10

Use “AGROXONE”4 The new and improved WEED KILLER For the control of weeds in pastures ana cereal crops. NATIONAL MORTGAGE & AGENCY CO. OF NZ LTD. 147 HEREFORD STREET, CHRISTCHURCH.*

—— < ■ .vs;;— .W 8 RECORD PROGRESS IN EDUCATION Greater Expenditure... New Buildings,.. Improved Conditions for Teachers NEVER BEFORE has there been such progress in education as during the past five years • Expenditure in 1954-55 will reach a record level of RECORD compared with in ’948-49 •- • doubh m } year, o f National Goeemment! • In 1949 the Government faced a great problem of inadequate, EXPANSION overcrowded and often out-of-date school accommodation. Drastic changes were JOC9 needed, and in every year since then a nen> record for school building hat been attained. More than twice the number of new classrooms were built in 1953 (844) than in 1949 (399)! • New salary scales for primary and post-primary teachers are now in operation. So also is a new grading system which has been greatly welcomed by the teaching profession. • Encouragement has been given to the building of teachers’ houses in country districts. In the past 4 years aoB houses 9949 have been built —nearly double the number built in any previous 4-year period MMR I • Bursaries have been generously increased, and a major building programme for I universities has been authorised. IfcPJHi The welfare of the rising generation immrA can safely be entrusted to the National Government [___________ vote 4MW/MZ aga,n N.Z. NATIONAL PARTI J 1124 -—■—— ■