Lessons By Post
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THE difficulty of educating Islands boys and girls in isolated centres had been overcome to a certain extent in New Guinea and Papua (prior to the in vasion) by a service provided by the Queensland Correspondence School (prin cipal, Mr. W. Zerner). Pupils were regu larly supplied with correspondence papers, which were corrected locally. The Queens land education system was followed.
Before war extended to the Pacific, Mr.
Zerner sent correspondence lessons to Fiji, New Hebrides, American Samoa, and Dutch East Indies, in addition to NO and Papua.
The following children taught by the Correspondence School passed the 1941 Queensland State Scholarship examina tions; Rabaul (NO), R. G. Clarke, S C.
Gascoigne, S. F. Smith, Jacqueline M.
Palmer, Heather F. Whiteman; Wau (NG), E. R. Stephens; Pt. Moresby (Papua), G. W. Rogerson.