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Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1920, Page 5

Br. Clifford M. Stubbs, a graduate of Canterbury College, is revisiting Christchurch, after an absence of ten years, eix of which he has spent as professor of chemistry at the Christian University of Western China. Dr. Stubbs graduated M.A. at Canterbury College in 1010, afterwards proceeding to Liverpool University, where he ootained the degree of D.Sc. He left China for England last year, on furlough, and is now 011 his way back to the East. "In America 18, 1 000 schools are closed for want, of teachers," remurked Mr J. Caughley, M.A., Assistant-Director of .Education, in the course of an address to members of the Central Chamber of Commerce at Wellington. He added that although there were, quite a number of areas in America where fulltime schools were in operation, there were other districts in which Congress was at present striving to make it compulsory for children to attend school a minimum of twenty weclta in a year. Incidentally statistics showed that the American teacher stayed on an average only five years at his calling, and fourfifths of the teachers had not reached a standard of education higher than the,