PAPER SHORTAGE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 3, 4 January 1941, Page 6

PAPER SHORTAGE

EFFECT ON SCHOOLS

(By Teleprn»r»h--!Vcse .Association.)

AUCKLAND, January 3

Dwindling supplies of schooJ stationery and text-books are likely to create a problem in many schools and colleges when the first terms open next month.

"The great difficulty this year will be to procure sufficient exercise books, notebooks, and other paper," said Mr. J. W. McGeechie, headmaster of-, the Parnell School, when interviewed today. There were large increases in prices last year and the scarcity was already becoming acute in various directions before the holidays. Waste of every kind will have to be eliminated, and children educated in making the most of all the paper that is usable.

Other headmasters, also stressed the need for strict economy in stationery and text-books.

A firm of booksellers said it was not expected that prices would be much advanced above last year's prices.

speaking, any and every style can (or could) be furnished by London, and sometimes styles the Byzantines and Italians never knew. There is the iShell-Mex Building, also the Bush House; and no one can foresee the styles of the future. But this much is certain, the curious and entrancing beauty of the skyline of London is now changed and will change; familiar spires and domes will no longer be visible, from the street or at the end of it, from the far hilltops of 'Greenwich or the heights of Hampstead Heath. They have gone, alas! for ever; and of the German it shall be said for all time, "He wantonly and wickedly destroyed them!" •