AN AMAZED MINISTER
CHILDREN REFUSE HOLIDAY SCHOOL WORK I 5 REFER RED 311 NISI ER O A'FBCO-M E RUATORFA. yesterday. r J’he pupils of the Akmutahi Native School. Ruatoria, like their school so much that they declined a holiday offered by the Minister of Education, the Hon. P. Fraser, when lie visited the school on AA’ednesday. It is the Minister’s custom, when visiting schools, to grant a day’s holiday in honour of his visit. He usually askp the children if they would like a holiday, and invariably there is a unanimous agreement.
31 r Fraser went through the normal process at the Alaniitaiii School yesterday, not- for a moment expecting a. negative answer. He first asked the children if they would like a holiday, and there was an unexpected volume of “Noes.” 31 ueh surprised and slightly nonplussed, the Minister asked for a show of hands in fLAour of a holiday; not one went,up. AAdien lie asked for those who did 110 V desire a, holiday practically every hand was. raised.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 42, 10 June 1938, Page 2
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171AN AMAZED MINISTER Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 42, 10 June 1938, Page 2
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