SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21328, 1 November 1932, Page 12

SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS

HIRING-OUT SYSTEM TRIAL IN WELLINGTON AIM TO SAVE EXPENDITURE A system of hiring out text books to pupils at Rongotai College, Wellington, is to be adopted next year. In a report presented to the Wellington College board of governors the principal of the college, Mr. F. Martyn Renner, stated that beginning next year about £9O from tho school activities fund was to be spent in purchasing text books in lots of 36. Those would be hired out to the boys for tho year at a nominal charge. "The effect, of the reduction of cost will be cumulative, that is, it will have tho ultimate effect that in three years' time the cost to the parents of any boy of tho upper school will be 5s per year for the cost of text books," stated the report. "Contrast this with tho present expenditure, and it is at once apparent that the relief to tho pockets of tho parents will be considerable." It was stated that under tho old system English books for the fifth forms for 1933 would cost 13s 6d, and under tlie new system they would cost 6s 9d f0r51933, 5s for 1934, 2s for 1935, and Is for 1936. In the fourth forms English books for noxt year would cost 16s 9d ordinarily, and under the now systom they would cost 6s for 1933, 2s 6d for 1934, and Is for 1935. Similar reductions at obtained in regard to mathematical and science books. Under the new scale boys in the third forms would pay 4s 9d instead of 15s 9d. In the'sixth form books which next year would cost £1 9s 2d would now cost 7s 6d. The same principle had been adopted in (lie lower 6chool.