SCHEME FOR EMPIRE PUBLICITY

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1927, Page 2

SCHEME FOR EMPIRE PUBLICITY

ENDORSED BY HON. G. J. ANDERSON Enquiries are being received by Mr. L. O. Hooker from all'quarters with regard to his school children’s Empire reciprocal publicity scheme, and schools throughout the country are showing keen interest in the movement, which is rapidly increasing in magnitude. Further endorsement to the scheme is given in a letter to Mr. Hooker from the Minister of Mines, the Hon. G. J. Anderson, in which he states: “I am gratified to learn of the progress you are making with the scheme and offer you my congratulations on the results achieved up to the present. The scheme is one which, I feel sure, will prove beneficial to the producers of the Dominion and assist materially in fostering the Imperial spirit. "I was glad to be in a position to render some little assistance in connection with the scheme shortly after- it was launched. To my mind it offers scope for useful and instructive work in many directions and I trust your efforts will meet with every success.”

Ail the education hoards in New Zealand have now been circularised by Mr. Hooker, who is awaiting replies from the Wellington, Nelson, Otago and Southland boards, while letters have just been sent to over 1000 schools in the Wellington and Hawke’s Bay districts. At present batches of letters are -being received from Taranaki and Wanganui schools for dispatch to schools at Warrington, Lancashire. It is proposed to send a portion of the letters from the Auckland district to the Bolton district in Lancashire, which has requested that 5000 letters be sent. Letters from Hawke’s Bay are yet to come in, and these will probably be diverted to some other centre in Lancashire, as Mr, Hooker wishes to cover the whole of the county of Lancashire, In which there are 23 education districts.