LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5368, 24 December 1928, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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The Hauraki Plains Co-operative Dairy Co., Turua, paid its suppliers for November supply Is 6d for cheese and: Is 5d for butter.

Hay-making is now in full swing on the Hauraki Plains, and a great number of paddocks have been cut and are awaiting stacking. In most cases the crops are good, but are far belo.w the weight, for. there is practically no clover.

What inducement is there to a busy man, who?.e time and brains are valuable, to join a school committee, or an education board, or the governors of a secondary s.chool, .when it matters so very little what he thinks, what he says, w.hat he does op tries to do ’ (asks the Christchurch Sun). The machine in Wellington numbers on. Local administration of schools., on present lines, can end only by attracting persons who, like playing the part of the fly on the cartwheel, fancying themselves very important, or who actually ejnjoy the petty business of dotting departmental “i’s” and pasting up departmental notices.

With the commencement of the new school year, in February next, new school books will be used throughout the Dominion in the; State schools, this being rendered necessary by the adoption of the new school syllabus. Quoting the Educational Gazette,” “as the new books have been written jn accordance with the mod-i method?, outlined in the new syllabus, it has been found impossible to avoid making them somewhat larger than the old series.” It also states that “notwithstanding that the books, are larger and better produced than) any that have so far been offered to the schools, the prices have been kept as low as possible. Value for value, there is. actually a substantial reduction when compared with thq old series. Further, a comparison with the price of corresponding books published in England will show parents and teachers very that the New Zealand product is considerably the cheaper.”