NEW ZEALAND & SCHOOL CHILDREN

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 143, 20 June 1925, Page 13

NEW ZEALAND & SCHOOL CHILDREN

(PBOM OD3" OffS CORKESPONDE.VT.)

LONDON, Bth May. *vT 1 7u Iy, evidenfc that publicity through the channels-of schools is <r O i n i f£ Ti/ so keen art the children to know more about the TlSt?l fc, co°nt«fs of the British Empire In 'The Teachers' World" just lately one little announcement was inserted l-v the New Zealand Publicity Officer that the Dominion would be glad to let any schools have some photographs to hane in the classrooms if they were interested in the suggestion. The teachers have f^Pl/ jumped at the offer, . and in" I fortnight the High Commissioner's Office had 1268 applications from all over the country;_ on one day alone the postbasr brought' m requests from 442 teachers There are not at the moment enoutft pictures on hand to-supply the demand, co a cable has gone to New Zealand for more, of an up-to-date and attractive .kind suitable for the purpose W H"v at U ,nnlflM sy that the sub, je&t of New Zealand will be-kept in; the forefront by the delivery of lantern" lectures to the children, if th BSe am sougM. Wembley, this year, is sure to arous\- an even more keen desire for mi formation. Mr. ji Balfonr, an official of the Put. hcity Department, went ■to Aylsham, near Norwich, last week to give a lantern lecture on the Dominion. This took; place at the Town Hall, and was attended by a highly appreciative audience. It was at the suggestion of a New Zealand lady living in Norfolk that the address was given. Mr. Balfour's next lecture will be at Felisstowe before an audience of men of the Royal Air Force. This is one of the coastal area stations, and the audience is boundto be aji interested one.

It is very evident that the work of the" Puohcity Department has only iust begtm. It is limited only bj tko W