The Minister for Education (the Hon. C. J. Parr) has been considering further facilities arranged by his departmental officers for tho education of deaf children. Step-; are now being taken to establish special day classes in each of the four centres.
The recent increase in the price of books acids yet another straw to the burden which at present lies heavily on the back of tho general public. During the last few weeks the price of novels in Auckland has increased from 5a to 6s, whole in some quarters a gloomy hint is given that the cost of these books, which before the war was 3s 6d, may yet rise to 7s.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3455, 1 June 1920, Page 28
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