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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5731, 28 October 1905, Page 12

Prophesying a wave of unemployment in New Zealand in the wake of the Harvester Trust, a speaker at Christchurch said: “'Picture yourselves.” he exclaimed, “with a tray of oranges on your chests. Picture yourselves in Cathedral Square with a Yankee gramophone on a Yankee barrow.” “Maori children are exceedingly apt at sowing, and the work of the schools aa a whole should give every satisfaction,” eaya the Inspector of Native Schools. “Indeed, there are some schools where the stitches have the regularity of machine work. At present, however most of our teachers confine their energies to the production of sam. pie work, and the children get little practical training. In some schools girls are trained to make a garment—e.g., a night-dress—and X have seen a skirt made by a boy - Tn good style. I think that this practical work is what we ought to encourage, and that, if necessary. the various forms of stitches, etc., to bo reduced to a minimum in or. der to give the time for practical work. In one or two schools children are taught to cut out in paper, and this, too. is a practice that I hone to see extended i in time,”-