SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 103, 28 October 1932, Page 8

SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS

HIRING-OUT SYSTEM

FOR RONGOTAI COLLEGE

,A system of hiring out text books to pupils at Bongotai College is to | be put into operation next year. In a report presented at the monthly meeting of the Wellington College Board of Governors yesterday, the principal of the collegej Mr. F. Martyn Eenner, stated .that beginning next year about £90 from the School Activities Fund was to be spent in purchasing text books in lots of thirtysix. These would be hired but to the boys for the year at a nominal charge. "The effect of the reduction of cost will be cumulative —that is, it will have the ultimate effect that in three years' time the cost to the parents of any boy of the upper school will be' 5s per year for the cost of text books," stated the report. "Contrast this with the present expenditure, and it is at once apparent that the relief to the pockets of the parents will be considerable." It was stated that under the old system English books for the fifth forms for 1933 would cost 13s 6d, and under the new system they would cost 6s 9d for 1933, 5s for 1934, 2s for 1935, and Is for 1936. In the fourth forms English books for nest year would cost 16s 9d ordinarily, and under the new system they would cost 6s for 1933, 2s 6d for 1934, and Is for 1935. Similar reductions obtained in regard to mathematical and science books. Under the new scale boys in the third forms would pay 4s 9d instead of los 9d. In the sixth form books which next year would cost £1 9s 2d would now cost ?s 6d. The same principle had been adopted in the [ lower school. . i