SCHOOL BOOKS.
UNIFORMITY TO BE ENFORCED. (By Telegraph—Special to Star.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 26. An Order-in-Council has been issued which aims at reducing the costs of school books to the parents of children in the primary schools. It directs that from January 1 the following will be the only class books that teachers in the public •• schools shall be authorised to require their pupils to purchase for school use:—Reading: School Journal (free) ; supplementary readers (free) ; Live readers (Whitcombe and Tombs), for preparatory classes only; New Beacon readers, books I to IX (Ginn and Co.), for preparatory classes only. English grammar and composition: Lessons in English. History: Story of the British Nation. Geography : Pacific geographies. Arithmetic: Progressive arithmetics. Writing: Progressive copy boolv6. Atlas: Any inexpensive atlas.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 November 1925, Page 5
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