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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 35, 18 March 1914, Page 7

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"SCENES CARtfAGE> ; WOMEN'S INSTITUTE OBJECT 'H ' At to-day 's meeting of the Canterbury;*Education Board- 3. letter was receive®/ - ' from the Canterbury Women's, Institute; expressing the opinion that some of the.3 pictures supplied" by the 4 education thorities for primary schools ••• represent; scenes of warfare and are therefore quite * t ■ unsuitable fo'r the .purpose, and urging.; ~ that in. preparing pictures for school Uee - ' only such as deal with the manners, eon— - ditions, and occupations of other peoples, cr which illustrate Works of Nature should! }Le reproduced,' and'to avoid all picturesof hostilities and slaughter, as ~ they - , 11 tended; to debase the minds of the cliil- - ' j . dren. " • • • - * Mr Jamieson moved that the letter, bet received. .. .. ► Mr Boyd said there might De some-- . thing in the matter. Such pictures as those 6f Wolf&" scaling the heights iff" Abraham, lianging on the wall cf theboardroom, might not tte suitable for children. Mr Collins: I think it, is an excelJenti picture. . " The Chairman thought there might be,-' something in the metier, but it was a~ difficult one to deal with. ' The letter was received.. . " '