ADVERTISING EDUCATION.
SIR. JAMES PARR’S WORK. ENTHUSIASTIC APPRECIATION. (Special to the Herald.l CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Enthusiastic appreciation of the way Sir James Parr had advertised education' during the past few yeprs, was expressed by Miss Fiidayson, president of the . Women Teachers’ 1 Association, at a complimentary luncheon tendered: to the Minister yesterday. She concluded! a witty speech by remarking that if in his capacity as High Commissioner, Sir James succeeded in advertising New Zealand as successfully as he had advertised education she was afraid the Dominion would be swamped with immigrants. ■- Sit- James, in reply, said! that if advertising was a crime he pleaded guilty, but ho .did not think it was a crime. He believed in publicity, and if they had the goods, the should advertise them, being carefuly of course, not to overdo it. They should’ give the public the plain, honest facts of the situation and leave them to judge. “I lejoiee that I was not born a silent man,” added Sir James.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17008, 15 April 1926, Page 7
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