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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 8

In another column will be found an advertisement of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, "inviting- applications for copies -of the 'Singer almanac. . ;This work is published.every year, and contains'a large quantity of most useful sporting records; it is. distributed free of charge.' -Copies may be obtained- for the asking at any of the numerous shops, or from : the; controlling agency, 8 Willis Street,, Wel--1 lington. ! - ',-We are; surprised that Mr. Blytti lias not [ noticed the case of a yeoman farmer in the Eastern Counties who lias paid over £20 in fines to keep his sons from school in order to teach them-their natural business at home," writes the; "Acadomy,", reviewing Mr< James Blyth's "Small Holder."- '"This may be, an extreme course in the opposite direction. ; But the protest has its valuo. j- Wo consider that in country schools'only tho simplest elementary teaching should be given, but that it should he thorough of its kind, and free from. fads. A really 1 important reform would be to restrict all book and' desk work to morning school, and in the afternoon either, to provide agricultural train-ing-or to: allow tho childi'on to-return to tho farm lands; for, as Mr. Blyth concludes.: . 'the whole secret of rural life lies, and will , lis, in the ti&ming of too children.'"