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Shannon News, 6 October 1922, Page 3

la 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 lor a first-class tutor ,to come and give his four hoys a modern education. By the time this man with an M.A. degree.l arrived, the wool cheque fell from £ISOO to under £SOO, and there was a coincident rise in the cost of labour. A family council, which included the newcomer, decided that under 1 lie circumstances modern edu cation would not bring bread or meat. The nice schoolroom was converted into a modern cowshed with a concrete floor and a four-cow plant. The English M.A. now does the ploughing, am\ the four hoys milk seventy cows. At night they foregather in an adult kindergarten. Education and prosneritv make good progress hand in naud. This model, followed on a big scale, would work a miracle for New Zealand. A Master of Arts is not always incapacitated for physical work. —Times.