SCHOOL BANKING
The Wellington School Committees’ Association considered a school hanking system at a recent meeting. The secretary (Air N. A. Tngrniu) stated that in the South the system was working satisfactorily, and was encouraging thrift among the scholars. Each Afonday morning the children paid their penny to the teacher, niul a record of the money was kept by the child and*''by the teacher, lllie joint savings of the children were deposited in the Post Office Savings Bank in the name of the School Committee, which used the interest from the deposits on such school requisites as library books, etc. Air Ingram 4 said that in an Otago school last year ' one school of 620 pupils had deposited ,£SOO. He suggested that delegates from school committees might consider the advisability of instituting a banking system in AVcllington schools.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1927, Page 3
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138SCHOOL BANKING Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1927, Page 3
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