TO SCHOOL BY AEROPLANE.
The Queensland Education Department has published a book, called "State Education in Queensland," written by the Under-Secretary, Mr. J. D. Story. It contains a number of illnstrations of travelling schools, and it is stated that "each teacher is supplied with a speciallydesigned buggy, four to six horsed, and a complete camping-out equipment. He has also the services of a boy from 14 to 18 years of age, to attend to the horses, help to fix the tent, light the fire, lower the slip-rails, open gates, and do the numerous little things which a. handy youth can do." Motor-cars and motor-cycles are being tried as a quick means of locomotion, but the experiment was not an unqualified success in the rainy season. Commenting, the editor of the interesting "schools" column in the Sydney Daily Telegraph remarks: — "If the Queensland Education Department has not hitched its wagon to a star, it proposes to get as close as possible to it, lor the director goes on: 'The Department is anxiously waiting perfection of aeroplanes. The transit difficulties will then be reduced to a minimum, and the sand and black soil, and hills and torrential streams, shall trouble us no irior«» .' »
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 18
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201TO SCHOOL BY AEROPLANE. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 18
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