EDUCATION BY PICTURES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 199, 12 November 1934, Page 2

EDUCATION BY PICTURES

SCIENCE LECTURER’S WORK Of interest not only to teachers, parents, and children, but to every body, is the coining visit to the environs of Stratford of Mr P. P. S. Comes, 8.A., B.Sc.. late science lecturer of Christchurch Teachers’ Training College. When retrenched nearly two years ago, this lecturer decided to earn his living by demonstrating the usefulness of moving pictures in education, and to that end has put together programmes which are both instructive and interesting. Some, of his films he has made him self during his tours of the South Island. Readers of this paper may have heard from Station 3YA a few months ago a lecture on the Mutton Bird Islands. This was an account of a trip undertaken, at the invitation of the Southern Maoris, to make a film of the interesting mutton bird

industry. Mr Contes has also filmed the beautiful Eglinton Valley, and the story of alluvial gold mining throughout the South Island, from Southland to Westland, As showing that New Zealanders have lots to

learn about'their own country, - he says “I was chatting ope day with (he manager of Paddy’s Point sluicing claim, where the great nozzle was fairly sweeping clay and boulders off the content bottom, when a well dressed young fellow alighted from his car and called out ‘Hey, mate! What are .you' making there?’ ‘Wages, I hope!’ replied the boss.’ “It seems strange not to see the Southland rabbits up here,” said Mr Comes. “They arc a valuable industry down there. Southland’s shield is said to he a rabbit rampant on a

( green field. You go in for cheese, as j Southland does —but I do not see so many Hoistoin-Shorthorn herds this way. I should say it must be hard for your factory managers to keep up to Southland quality. You have, one great advantage over Southland, though. When I was there about this time last season, they were having a very rough time with starter trou ble. They are a long way from fresh cultures down there. But you arc not only closer to Massey College, but have a good laboratory at Hawera, and moreover appear to go to more care in keeping a ‘mother starter’ going pure in central factories, such as Stratford.