CHILDREN'S CORNER

Grey River Argus, 7 September 1939, Page 10

CHILDREN'S CORNER

The extracts from the research work of the Grey Main School children for the Centennial Exhibition, which have been published in this column for some weeks past, have proved to be interesting to our readers and the suggestion has been made that the column should be made available for similar articles by West Coast children. Children who may be interested m this idea are invited to inquire into the past and present life and activities of their district and to write down what they hear and see, as well as they can. to give a faithful picture of their life and surroundings to other -children and grown-ups who may have no idea what it is like to live m a West Coast mining or timber muling for intance. We have heard of a co-operative experiment that is being carried out by the headmaster and pupils of a school in a timber milling township on the Otira Line. From all accounts there is a co-operative building society in this school which has a model bungalow so far on the way to completion that the lighting of the first fire was recently celebrated with much good fU p’erhaps the pupils of Jack’s Mill school will send us an account of their co-operative building society — lEd. ■