SCHOOL JOURNAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 May 1917, Page 8

SCHOOL JOURNAL

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CU JIT AILMENT NECESSARY,

(Spiciix to ‘ Stab-”)

WELLINGTON, This Day.

War conditions are responsible for the suspension of tin; Labor Department’s monthly journal, and Hie Minister of Education (Hon. <L A. Hainan) announces that it will be necessary to curtail the issue of the “School Journal,” because the shortage of paper renders it necessary to conserve supplies, in order to ensure continued publication in diminished numbers- “ Any such step ] view with regret,” remarked the Minister, “for 1 recognise that the ‘Journal’ has an educational value not possessed by ordinary reading books, which cannot provide up-to-date reading matter on current events 1 . Indeed, for this the ‘Journal i s displacing miscellaneous: readers in many schools, and thus relieving parents of the cost of such books, that the. ‘School Journal’ is highly appreciated and eagerly looked forward to by pupils) in public schools I know from personal oxpononce, and that its educational value is widely recognised U shown by the fact that the authorities of two hundred private schools purchase it for the use of their pupils. In the country itreaches almost every home, and parents read Part 111. with as much interest as their children. Not least among iis admirers are the children in the native schools.” It was intended to appoint an associate editor for the “School Journal, ’ but the Hon. J. A- Hanan explained to your correspondent that this position will not be filled at present, owin„. to the difficulties of publishing during the war. Temporary arrangements will, however, be made to assist the editor. Mr. W. E. Spencer. M.A., M.Sc... who has bad charge of the publication since it;: inception m ]*>o7. The Minister referred to the scrupulous care taken to verify every fact mentioned in the “Journal.’’ lor, as he put it. even* child, teacher, and indeed every parent looks at it through magnifying, glass. 'I lie verifies lion of facts takes a great deal of time, and the task of pioviding illustrations of topical interest often takes longer than the provision ol nailing mailer.