Education System
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Praise for Cook Is.
MR. D. B. Roberts, head of the South Pacific Commission’s literature bureau, on returning from a visit to the Cook Islands in August, said that he had noted that there was a “vigorous schooling system, a literacy rate of 95 per cent., and 30 per cent, of the annual budget being spent on education.”
He believed these figures com pared favourably with efforts being made anywhere in the world.
He considered the Further Educa tion system as “one of the most promising examples seen anywhere of helping people to make practical use of what they had been taught at school, to meet the problems of adult life.” This scheme, Mr. Rich ards said, was the first of its kind in the Islands and was creating con siderable interest elsewhere.
A press report that Russian sub marines had been seen in the coastal waters of New Guinea reached New Zealand on August 28, but evidently was not taken seriously, “They Had Snow on Their Periscopes” was the heading put on the item by New Zealand Herald.