A NOVEL DISPLAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 73, 23 September 1938, Page 17

A NOVEL DISPLAY

A novel feature at the Karori Horticultural Society's spring show yesterday was an unexpected display of over thirty dish gardens by the pupils of Standard lIIA, Karori School, under the charge Of Mrs. Higgin. These were made, as part of the school work, in a multiplicity of containers, including a dustbin lid, portions of attache cases, enamel kitchen bowl, and so forth. The designs were just as varied, including landscape gardens, lawns; tennis courts, Eskimo scenes, swimming pools in glass, rock gardens, rustic work of miniature toothpicks. Altogether it was a most interesting display, reflecting great credit on the teacher and the initiative of the pupils.

"I take off my hat to Germany for one thing," said Dr. W. M. Thomson, Hawera, at a South Taranaki School Committees' Association meeting at Hawera. "She has cut out all jazz and all crooning from her radio programmes. There is enough good and enjoyable music in the world without the beastly stuff." The meeting decided to support a remit to the annual conference at Christchurch that the attention of the Minister of Broadcasting and the Minister of Education be drawn to the alleged undesirability of *some commercial stations' programmes, in relation to the morals of children, and that more material of I educational value be broadcast from 4 all stations.