SPC Produces P-NG
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Education For
Inlanders
SPC Produces P-NG Picture Book
SMALL book recently sent to J;\ us by the South Pacific Com mission is called Papua and r!ew Guinea in Pictures, and has evidently been produced for native children of that Territory to aid ■ hem in their social studies course.
It consists of about 44 very good full-page photographs, and a de . iption of each which takes up the opposite page.
We presume that this book is to issued to native children attend iiK! schools in the Territory; we suggest that it could be issued also to primary'-school children in Aus tralia; or similar children in other Pacific Islands.
Judging by the number of tele ne calls the PIM office has from mothers who want “some hnig that my child can put in her ject book,” many primary school ahers are carried away with the of interesting their pupils in Territory; unfortunately, there '•toes not seem to be sufficient of cut-out and paste-up literature around to satisfy the appetite they arouse.
A book of this sort would spare the project makers—not to say their mothers, the travel agencies, and perhaps the PIM.
It might not be a bad idea to issue the book free to Federal Parliamentarians who take it in turns to make trips to the Terri
tory in the winter recess but ret having learnt very little.
The book was written by E. P.
Marriott, a missionary teacher Popondetta, Papua, and publish by Macmillan. To produce this k of publication, with this number photographs, would cost far rr
an the 4 - Stg. marked on the ok, if done by ordinary com jrcial means. (Aust. price, 7/6.)