EXCHANGE OF TEACHERS
HONOLULU AND DOMINION HIIADJIASTEK’S PROPOSAL (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. An exchange of teachers between Honolulu and New Zealand, is suggested in letters to the Minister of Education, the Hon. P. Fraser, which Mr. A. R. Blank, headmaster of the Fendalton School has brought back with him from the superintendents of education in Hawaii.
During his stay in Honolulu, Mr. Blank found that while many people were interested in New Zealand, few knew anything about it. An exchange of teachers' would provide the Dominion with emissaries in what was one of the world's greatest tourist centres and. while, they would learn much that would benefit the children in New Zealand, they could, in turn, pass on news of their own country.
On the day Mr. Blank left Honolulu, 3000 school teachers arrived there to spend their three months' vacation. It would have been simple to divert half of that traffic to New Zealand, he said, because it Would be just as cheap to travel the longer distance as to stay in Hawaii, but umcrtunately the Dominion had no tourist agent there. The only information about New Zealand could bp obtained at the Union Steam Ship Company’s office.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20000, 27 July 1939, Page 16
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201EXCHANGE OF TEACHERS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20000, 27 July 1939, Page 16
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