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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 298, 17 December 1936, Page 19

“I do think that parents should give their boys less pocket money. I do not think they quite realise how much they do givo them," said the retiring headmaster (Rev. G. McKenzie) in addressing parents at a prize-giving ceremony in connection -with the Cathedral Grammar School in Christchurch. "In the school’s own little tuck shop the boys spend an average of one penny a day each, and how much they spend in addition at the pictures and other tuck shops I don’t know," he proceeded. "I always think that it is not generosity, but only pride. You want the other boys with whom your boys associate to think you are a little bit wealthier than'his parents. This is only inverted pride. I do wish you could bring your boys up with a little more idea of thrift and economy, and refrain from giving them so much pocket money. It is a constant source of trouble in every school."