"Education should not be regarded as something imposed on the people from above by the Government," said the Hon. H. G. R. Mason. AttorneyGeneral and acting-Minister of Education, when speaking at the reunion at the Pukckohe Primary School on Saturday. Local enthusiasm, he explained, was a very important factor in determining what the Government spent on education in any particular district and this policy had been followed by successive parties in power. It tints behoved the people to take a lively interest in the question of the extent to which educational facilities should be provided for their children.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1939, Page 3
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