SCHOOL BOOKS.

Grey River Argus, 19 May 1944, Page 7

SCHOOL BOOKS.

(To the Editor;. Sir, —Would you kindly allow me some space in your paper, for the purpose of protesting against the muddle Which we find our educational system is getting into. I, sir, have infants just recently commenced their schooling. I received a note from their teacher, instructing me, as to the type of books they require. Ihe said books so far as 1 can ascertain arc unprocurable. So far away as in Christchurch did I endeavour to purchase them,, with no result, and U was suggested that there was a slight possibility that I might procure them from Wellington although the bookseller at Christchurch was reluctant i.o make any guarantee. Now Sir, I quite understand that during wartime there may arise some difficulties with regard to paper, etc., but I also notice that these difficulties do not appear when onA requires dole books, ration books, , meat ration coupons, and often unnecessary paper wasted by some manpower officer remonstrating with some worker who was perhaps a little too ill for work on some particular day. I say Sir, that the children of to-day are the Government of to-morrow and it behoves our present Government to pay a little more attention to these infants which I have referred to. Surely books for children’s education can be printed, ever at a temporary monetary loss—because it is definitely unfair to teachers and pupils, for us to send our children to school expecting them to do a job, and giving them no tools to do the said job. • I am, etc,, ED. C. CHANDLER, Waiuta, May 17.