SCHOOL BOOKS.
The Hon. J. A. Hanan informed a deputation which waited upon him of tl;s excessive cost of school hooks, that ho was gathering information from various countries with a view to submitting to Cabiaict a practical si-heme to reduce the cost of text hooks and material. Tho Minister of Education does not require to await tho arrival of information from other countries. One of his predecessors in office (the Hon. G. Fowlds) showed him how the necessary relief could ho afforded. It remained for the Massey Government, with a simglo stroke of the pen, to reimpose the burden that had been lifted from the shoulders of heads of families by a Minister who made the system of education "free, secular, and compulsory" in deed as well as in word. The action of the Massey Government will not be soon forgotten. The heavy tax imposed upon parents for the provision of school books aind requisites, is a serious handicap to the children of working men, as many of them have to he withdrawn from school before they have completed their education.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 8 February 1918, Page 4
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