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a Round Table discussion by Nelson secondary school principals and school boards. The present school certificate system had almost outlived its usefulness. It was becoming too large and administratively unwieldy and was controlling curriculums and thinking within schools, he said. An accrediting system under which schools worked with greater freedom than at present in subjects offered but still within a broad national syllabus would help overcome this.
Jehovah’s Witnesses.— Nearly 700 delegates are expected to attend the annual assembly of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the northern half of the South Island, which will be held in the Linwood High School assembly hall today, on Saturday and Sunday. Mr H. J. Benesch, the district supervisor, will be the principal speaker.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31052, 6 May 1966, Page 3
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