STATE SCHOOLS CRITICISED.
BACKWARD FREE PLACE BOYS. (By Tolesrauli.-Prosa Association.) Auckland, Docember 20. At tho Grammar School prize-giving, Mr. Tibbs. headmaster, protested against the extension of tho free ptaco. regulation to include pupils of primary schools over fourteen years of age. Of 42 boys in their fifteenth your who came l from priniarv schools with ft certificate of pioiieieucy, a great number were not proficient in any subject of primary, work. Educationally speaking, they were so illfavoured that it was hard to know w hero to basin to teach tho elements of secondary knowledge.
\ novelty in picture-making is pro. duced by cutting out of black paper a silhouette which is placed, between two pieces of semi-transparent' silk or finemeshed netting, and hung up in a place whero tho light will fall through the mesh. Striking effects ale produced in this way, and advertisers as ux-ll as ruv lists have caught up the idea, .
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1629, 21 December 1912, Page 6
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153STATE SCHOOLS CRITICISED. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1629, 21 December 1912, Page 6
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