SCHOOL BOOKS
WELLINGTON BOARD PItOTEIST. • (Per Press Association — copyright j WELLINGTON, September 21. Thq Education Board discussed the matter of school books contract, as the 'result ;of ' a letter from Auckland on the subject, ", Notice to receive the letter was subject to an amendment that the Board should enter a protest bn- the. ground that the contract, as: entered into, by the Minister, wa.s not in-, the best interests of parents of the Dominion, and this was carried by 8 to 5. Chaj,rman- Forsyth defended the contract,' maintaining that the saving effected by the contract, spread over 5 and a half yeans, counterbalanced any estimated saving that master printers suggested might accrue over four years.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1932, Page 6
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115SCHOOL BOOKS Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1932, Page 6
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