CHILDREN AND CONJURERS.
EXHIBITIONS IN SCHOOLS.
It is well that children should learn early that all things are not what they seem. This, at any rate, was .the view put forward by Mr. G. T. London at a mooting of the Wellington Education Board this week in supporting a.n application by a conjuror to be allowed to give entertainments in schools, out of school hours. Ho claimed that it was well that tho children should learn that there were such things as chicanery and legerdemain in the world, as by doing so they would lie less likely to be beguiled in after life. They hoard, for instance, statements by public men that wonderful improvements wore going to be carried out without the rates being increased one penny. This, to his mind, savoured of legerdemain, and it was just as well that children should iearn to inquire into the truth of things for themselves. The chairman pointed out that the matter rested in the hands of the school committees.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 14
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