HISTORY OF PROVINCE

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31115, 19 July 1966, Page 11

HISTORY OF PROVINCE

Information For Pupils AU primary schools in the Christchurch area will receive information in the next few days from the Canterbury Pilgrims’ and Early Settlers’ Association aimed at interesting pupils in the early history of the province. Each school will receive two questionnaires concerned with the history of Canterbury and historical places about the city, together with information about the association. The questionnaires are a reprint of one circulated by the association in 1958, and one prepared by the Casebrook Intermediate School as i a social studies project. In an accompanying circular letter the association secretary (Mr J. R. Allison) says that the society is open to all whose families settled in Canterbury before the end of October, 1876. Its membership needed to be replenished from each generation if it was to carry out its objects of keeping interest in Canterbury history alive. The society did not aim to "live in the past” but to build for the future on the traditions and achievements in the creative spirit of the early pioneers, Mr Allison said. Even if it made children open their eyes more as they • walked around the city to note i places of importance, the disi tribution of the questionnaires would be worth while.