FREE READING BOOKS
3IJ XI STEIV S EX PL A X ATI OXS. I'cr Press Association. DUXEDJX. Juno 22. Tin- Hon. G. Eowlds, Minister for Education., interviewed to-night. :ui swered the objections of the. Otago and Auckland Education Boards to tlit departmental grant for free reading l)ooks for classes P. and Standards i and 2. The traversed the contentions of both Boards, and concluded by saying: " Our contentions is this: Tliat the use of free rending books of a noncontintioiis character is not in the best interests of good reading; further, that the grant is adequate, r.he supply sufficient and suitable reading matter in Standards 1 and 2, and that it lias been tried under business conditions by a good many of the Boards, with the result that the contention of the Department dias been justified by their experience.''
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13936, 23 June 1909, Page 6
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