The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1957Vol. XXVII, No. 6

Education by Mail Order

p. 113 · Read in the full issue

Mail Order

EVEN folk living in the remotest parts of the South Pacific have some choice in the matter of schools for their youngsters. In this event they are “Correspondence Schools.”

The New Hebrides monthly News letter lists three schools which will enrol pupils from the Condominium.

One is the famous Blackfriars School, Sydney: another (primary) correspondence school is at College Road, Brisbane, B 19; and the Department of Education Corres pondence School in Wellington, NZ, will also supply correspondence

grades, in Primar >' and post-primary Applications for enrolment for Blackfriars and for the NZ school, -need the formal approval of the British Resident Commissioner.

The Queensland school will take children without official sponsorship, Fees at Blackfriars’ are £B/10 - per annum, plus cost of airmail if used; Queensland, £5 per annum Plus airmail; NZ. £3/10/- for primary schools and £6 for post primary. The NZ school does not provide a correcting service if The “engagement has" been announced of Miss Betty Watson, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm.

H. Watson, of Rarotonga, to Mr Leslie Bailey of Coulsdon Surrey.

England