CHRISTMAS CARD PLAN

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31729, 12 July 1968, Page 5

CHRISTMAS CARD PLAN

Help For Assn Finances

The Canterbury School Committees’ Association will sponsor the sale of Christmas cards as a way of obtaining finance.

The association will buy the cards from the New Zealand School Committees’ Federation for 8c and sell them for 9c. The president (Mrs M. Rae) told a meeting of the association that more money was vital for the national executive to continue fighting for education improvements. She said that the only source of income at present was affiliation fees and the executive was reluctant to increase them.

No government would make Increased grants and improvements without being kicked into doing so, she said. The federation on numerous occasions had given the initial kick.

Mrs Rae suggested that committees could sell the cards to make a small profit for their own funds. One card bears a historic painting by J. C. Hoyte of a view of the White Terraces before their destruction by the Mount Tarawera eruption of 1886, The other is of Auckland Harbour.

In a report on the association’s affairs, the secretary (Mr R. W. Taylor) said committees repeatedly failed to reply to questions asking their opinions on various subjects.