SCHOOL STATIONERY
MINISTER OF EDUCATION'S
PROPOSAL.
(« TBLBOSAPD.—SPECUI. TO THE POST.)
AUCKLAND, This Day. "The Stato should provide free stationery such as pads and notebooks used by children iv the schools," said the Minister of Education, Sir James Parr, yesterday evening. Tho supplying of books, he said, would not amount to a very largo sum per year. "I brought the matter before Cabinet this year, and it was not unfavourable to the proposal." Tho Minister continued: "I propose to ask Cabinet to place a sum on the estimates that will provide free stationery."
Li discussing the introduction of free text books into schools, Sir James Parr said it had been tried some years ago but had been found to be a failure. A free book system meant that one book would have to last two or three years. After ono child had used a. book it would bo passed on to tho next child, who would have a soiled, worn book. When tho system was in voguo iv 1909 parents and children did not favour it. Each child desired to have a brand new book which ho desired to call his own. The children soon impressed this on the parents, and tho system was dropped.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 102, 27 October 1925, Page 14
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