HONOLULU AND NEW ZEALAND

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 256, 27 July 1939, Page 6

HONOLULU AND NEW ZEALAND

Exchange Of Teachers Suggested By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, July 26. An exchange of teachers between Honolulu and New Zealand is suggested in letters to the Minister of Education, Mr. Fraser, which Mr, A. R. Blank, headmaster of the Fendalton school, has brought back with him from superintendents of education in Hawaii. During his stay in Honolulu, Mr. Blank found that, while many people were interested in New Zealand, few knew anything about it. Au exchange of teachers would provide the Dominion with emissaries in what was one of the world’s greatest tourist centres, and, while they would learn much that would benefit children in New Zealand, they could, in turn, pass on news of their own country. On the day Mr. Blank left Honolulu, 3000 school teachers arrived there to spend their three months’ vacation. It would have been simple to divert half of that traffic to New Zealand, he said, because it would be just as cheap to travel the longer distance as to stay in Hawaii, but tin fortunately the Dominion had no tourist agent there. Information about New Zealand could be obtained only at the Union Steam Ship Company’s office.