SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS.
TOO MANY VARIETIES.
MINISTER TAKING ACTION. [BY TELEGRAPH- —OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
WELLINGTON, Saturday.
The Minister for Education, Hon. G. J. Pan', Bpeaking at a college function, stated that it was his firm intention t-o reduce the expensive multiplicity of school text books.
"I called for a list," he said, "and the report discloses an extraordinary state of things. For English there are 71 different text books in use in the secondary schools of New Zealand, for Latin 51, and for French 60. This means added costs to parents, as changing demands make it difficult for booksellers, whom I do not blame, and stiff prices are the result. This has got to stop. Half a dozen or so of text books on one subject should be enough for the whole of New Zealand, so far as classes are concerned. Let all kinds of books be found in the school libraries by all means, but the use of so many different text books in New Zealand is entailing a burden at present on thousands of parents." "The Mayor asks me," added Mr. Parr, "if the same does not apply to the primary schools. It does, but to a lesser extent. I propose to adopt the same principle there to se« that the general multiplicity of books does not go on."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18276, 18 December 1922, Page 6
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