FREE SCHOOL BOOKS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 4, 29 January 1909, Page 2

FREE SCHOOL BOOKS

WKUJXCTOX HOARD'S PLAN'S. Telegra|fli ; -Press Association. Wellington, j iJls ( Xi«fht. ' ll lt '£ ;, rd to free school hooks, ihc Wellington Education Hoard adopter I his aiionioun tho following recommendIlium »r 111!' inspectors: Tllilt ill order to enable local booksellers to dispose or blocks in l.innl, no cliam-e lie made in tlie books I'm- the. current year; (b) I hat each head teacher bo informe-l ot llio amount of money available for liia school, and that the selection In* left in tho hands of each head teacher ill consultation with the school committee subject (o the following condition?: (1) That the hooks l.e selected from the list authorised liv the (iovornor-iu-Coiin-oil. hut if it he f<■ 11n<I desirable ntlt*»v suitable hooks may be selected Hibject to tho approval of ilie Hoard; (2) fliat the list ol books to be purchased be submitted to the Jhiard for approval; (c) That, for suppleniuitary readers tho surplus, if any, bo expended on cheap continuous readers now issued at prices from Id to ;M: (d) That no books he I

taken home by tin* children; fo) That where Hie bond lonelier ean show that the supply of ordinary iind Mipplomonlary readers for I\S. I and 2 is i|uito sufficient to ouablo him to carry on tho work of these clashes elHciently without tho necessity of further purchase, he ho pormittod to purchase library books for those classes; (2) Tliat the inspectors bo requested to make recommendations to tho Board n,s to tho. books to bo used after this year; (3) After careful consideration of the question of disinI foction ot .school books, the committee came, to the conclusion that the danger of infection is so very remote and the cost of periodical disinfection would be so considerable, as not to justify it in recommending expenditure for thai purpose.