“Probably each of you has a halfcrown in his pocket,” said Professor J. Shelley in an address to the Teachers’ Summer School at Christchurch. “That is the amount per head of the people in New Zealand each year that keeps all the universities in New Zealand going. Everyone spends more than that a week going to kinema theatres. We spend half as much on cigarettes as on the whole of our education. We should be ashamed of ourselves/’
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3263, 5 February 1931, Page 4
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