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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1940, Page 8

Vancouver. —Canada’s canned salmon pack for 1939 is estimated to run lower than the 1933 pack, which was well above the average for the preceding five years. The pack last year was estimated at 1.707.830 cases of 48 pounds each. Corporal punishment was forbidden in schools in most parts of the United States, and as a result discipline suffered. said Mr E. G. Jones, science lecturer at the Auckland Training College, who returned recently from a year's visit to New York State, in an address to members of the Auckland Education Board. If a teacher caned a child he was liable to be charged with assault, he said. As numbers of the schools did not believe in homework, and most of the children had to catch buses after school, the only means of enforcing discipline was by personality. Thus in schools with teachers lacking in this essential quality the standard of teaching suffered, for the children learned only what interested them. The speaker contrasted the system with that of New Zealand, pointing out that in Dominion schools the children were made to learn. Thus they were considerably further advanced than American children.