NOT SUCCESSFUL.
EDUCATION CLASSES ON PORT MELBOURNE. Auckland, Marck 7. According to officers who returned by the Port Melbourne no great success was attained with the . educational classes conducted aboard. Lieutenant A. O. Pondfler, a Rhodes scholar of Christchurch, was director. He states that the reßuKs were very disappointin; mainly owing to the lack of textbooks and equipment and the difficulty of providing classrooms. The instructors were compelled to take classes of sometimes 200 and even 300 men, and as there were on the vessel not more than two textbooks on any one'one subject it was impossible to make much progress. After the first week the classes were made optional, and an improvement was noted, but the classes were very popular, especially commercial. Many officers interested in the future of the soldiers complained of the lack of continuity apparent in educational schemes at present conducted and expressed the opinion that greater effort would have to be made to train men along lines to their desires, and more especially with a view to the occupations they were likely to follow after leaving the army.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1919, Page 6
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183NOT SUCCESSFUL. Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1919, Page 6
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