FREE STATIONERY.
FOR SCHOLARS’ USE
FAVOURED BY EDUCATION MINISTER. AUCKLAND, Oct. 26. “The State should provide free stationery, such as pads and notebooks, used by children in the schools,’’ said the Minister for Education, Sir Janies Parr. The supplying of these books, he said, would not amount to a very large sum a year. “I brought the matter before Cabinet this year, and it was not unfavourable to the proposal,” the Minister continued. “I propose to ask Cabinet to place a sum on the Estimates that will provide free stationery.” In discussing the introduction of free text-books in the schools, Sir James Parr said it had been tried some years ago, but had been found to be a failure. The free book system meant that the book would have to last two or three years. After one child had used a book it would bo passed on to the next child, who would have a soiled, worn book. When the system was in vogue in 1909 parents and children did not favour it. Each child desired to have a brand new book, which he desired to call his own. The children soon impressed this on their parents, and the system was dropped.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 277, 27 October 1925, Page 7
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202FREE STATIONERY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 277, 27 October 1925, Page 7
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