STATE SUPPLY OF SCHOOL BOOKS
CENTRAL CHAMBER OPPOSES SCHEME. Following the interview with a deputation of booksellers and stationers which waited upon the council of the Central Chamber of Commerce a week ago, tho council at yesterday’s adjourned meeting passed tne following motion" That the chamber opposes tho proposal that the State chould undertake the supply of school books until it is clearly shown that (1) the selling price, including the overhead charges, will be loss than nt present; (2) tho system of distribution will be more efficient than exists at tho present time/* In the course of a brief discussion, Mr. 0. J. Ward said that curious things happened in the book trade. Not so long ago girls attending the Girls’ Colleg» were asked to get a, certain book, which was not obtainable at any shop save one, and when they went there they were told by the shopman that ho was pledged only to supply that particulnr book to boys attending the Wellington College, so the girls had te get the boys to buy their books for them. This was not a tale—it happened in th? case of his own girls, who had to get boys attending college to buy for thorn. This was a matter he would have a'ked Inst week’s deputation about had he lioen present.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 248, 14 July 1921, Page 5
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