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Wairarapa Age, 11 March 1922, Page 5

An enterprising schoolmaster in charge of a country school in the Marton district is using a very novel but practical method of instructing his scholar.' in the topography of the land we live in. At the expense of considerable time and labour this teacher l as designed and cut in the turf of an adjoining field a map of New Zealand which measures perhaps a chain end a half in length. On this miniature Now Zealand all the mountain ranges at-1 largo rivers with their attendant gorges have boon moulded and carved. Neither have the lakes been forgrtten; the whole country being mo lied to the minutest detail. Near by . map of the whole world, though. O’ u much smaller scale, has been constructed in a similar manner. On fine 7 the children are taken cut and tv.ight with the aid of these realistic models. The idea certainly seems to be an excellent one, and one from which the children should derive much knowledge of the physical fea--1 t ires .of their own country.