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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20731, 19 May 1937, Page 2

Tire New South Wales Government Astronomer, who is supported by the president of the British Astronomical Association in Sydney, suggests that globes of the world should be used in Australian, New Zealand, and South African schools, showing the southern hemisphere uppermost. The Government Astronomer said that the present conventional globe, showing the northern hemisphere uppermost, was calculated to make school children think that they were living “down under” on the bottom of the earth, and this might have a bad effect on the nation in producing a sort of inferiority complex. There was no reason why a reversed globe with the printing in the right way should not be manufactured. The Otahuhu Borough Council has decided to request the Government to amend the existing legislation with a view to holding all elections of local authorities on the same day. It was mentioned that under the amendments passed two- years ago the election of borough councils, town and road boards was fixed to be held simultaneously every three years. Other local authorities, however, were not brought into line, and the council’s Finance Committee recommended that this should be done prior to the next election.