SOUTHLAND'S FAULTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 94, 7 May 1937, Page 4

SOUTHLAND'S FAULTS

Indignation at Hawke's Bay Schooi Lesson A correspondent has sent to The Southland Times the following 6*tract from a geography leSson for children of standkrds three and four, published in a Hawke 's Bay newspaper, presumably With thO authority of the local ediiCntion authority: a DISTRICTS OF NEW ZEALAND e SOUTHLAND Southland, in the exireme sonth, includes SteWart Island, where fishing is the ehief industfy. Southland has the coldest Climate in New Zealand. Its chief products are wool, dairy produce, gold, oats, frozen meat. Coal, thotfgh not of a vety high grade, is found. iii the WCstefii area of Southland. Nightcaps and Ohai are eoal mining centres* The timber industry also flourishes in this western region. Invercargill, nineteen miles from Bluff, 5s the largest and most important centfe. It fanks as the Sixth city of the Dominion. Bluff is the chief port, while Riverton is a small port, and a holiday resmt during the summer mOnths. Gure, inland, has fiour mills, and is a busy Country town. The correspondent has Untferlined .the following phrases in the lesson: — "Southland has the coldest climate ifi New eaZland." "Coal, though not of a very high grade* . * Invercargill "ranks as the sixth city of the Dominion. ' ' "I am very indignant about it, as 1 am sure other Southlanders wouid be could they see it," was hef comment.