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Shannon News, 3 October 1922, Page 3

In prosperous years a sheep farmer in. this district, far from a good school, built, one near his homestead and sent to his old teacher in England for a first-class tutor to come and give his

four hoys a modem education. By the time ihis man with an M.A. de-

gree arrived, live wool cheque Jell from £1560 to under £SOO, and there ; was'a coincident rise in tlve cost of) labour. A family council, which in-1 eluded the newcomer, decided that | under the circumstances modem edu ; ...... . . i

cation would not bring bread or meat. • The trice schoolroom was converted 1 into a modern cowshed with a con-i crete floor and a. four-cow plant, '['he j English M.A. now does the ploughing, 1

and the font' hoys milk seventy cows. At night they foregather in an adult kindergarten. Education and prosperity make good progress hand in hand. This model, followed on a big scale, would work a miracle for New, Zealand. A Master of Arts is not al- ’ ways incapacitated for physical work. —Times*