Mr. Storey, M.P., in distributing the Science and Art prizes won by pupils at the Co-operative Stores' classes at Sunderland, commented upon an observation of a teacher, that the people in the village communities took advantage of the Government-aided classes in much, larger proportion than the townspeople. Mr. Storey said one of the most hopeful signs he knew of in the North of England was the way in which tho pitmen and working men outside the towns were awakening to intellectual life, and striving to become intelligent and thoughtful.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6572, 9 December 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)
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