"MADE IN GERMANY."
CLOCK FOR A SCHOOLROOM
RETURNED SOLDIERS ANGRY.
TIMEPIECE PROMPTLY REMOVED. [HV TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WANG-AXUI. Thursday. The soldier settlers at Ivopare took strong exception to a clock of German manufacture being installed in the schoolroom, and they immediately took down the offending timepiece and returned it to the 'Education Board.
At the meeting of the Wangmui Education Board last evening Mr. 0. Heminingway, of Fatea, moved that the board adopt the policy of buying British-made goods in preference to German. Hemmingway said that if the board was going to buy German articles after the bitter lesson learned in tha war he did not want to belong to such a body. The Chairman: I am dead against buying German goods. The motion was carried.
The German clock which raised the ire of the Kopare soldiers had been sent by the Education Board in preference to other makes, which were considerably higher in price. Three timepieces were considered: British, £6; American, £3 10s; mid German, £2 7s 6d.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19280, 19 March 1926, Page 10
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