"HANDS ACROSS THE SEA."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 169, 16 January 1914, Page 8

"HANDS ACROSS THE SEA."

IXTI-IRCHAXtiK ()!•' TKACIIEKP, ' Jiv Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Xight. A jn-ni'tl-.'.-ii outcome of the activity connected wilh the "Hands Across :<>e Sea" C!ill) is the exchange lictwocii Unci; teachers from Canada and three fro;ti Xew Zealand. The hitter left for tl' sister Dominion by the Maliura la«l month, having come from schools hi tlie South Canterbury Kducation Dis trict. and the Canadian teachers arrive.! this afternoon by the steamer Miirnmn. The two vessels passed in the Pacific. Ocean, and thus was the idea of ''hand* across the sea" interesting!i- exemplified. j The Canadian teachers are. brig it. young women with a taste for educational adventure, and tliev are proud of being identified with the first exchange ell'cctcd between any overseas Dominions per medium of the club. They wis! teach under the auspices of (the Smith Canterbury Education Board for a year, when tliey will return to the place whence they came, viz., Brandon, Mn/.1 itobn. Tlie names of the trio are Miss:\i Varkcr, Sharman and Pilling, while those of the teachers who were sent from Xe-.v Zealand are. -Misses Caskv, Lindsay -i!i<; .Swat.