“Geography is the weakest subject of any taught in our schools,” declared Mr E. J. Parr (chief inspector of secondary schools) at the annual meeting of the Secondary Schools’ Association. “Principals of schools, indeed, have difficulty in finding teachers to take the subject. It was to provide teachers who could teach geography that the training college entrance examination was recently altered.”
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Southland Times, Issue 21089, 22 May 1930, Page 4
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