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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1961Vol. XXXI, No. 11

The Mostest

p. 125 · Read in the full issue

These Kids Are The Mostest

European Territory children re very difficult to handle, said 'lew Britain regional education officer, Mr. F. Newman, with upreme understatement in mid day. And then he went on to eally get down to cases.

P-NG schools contain a larger ercentage of little bullies and hildren who tell teacher what i do, than schools in Australia, e said. He attributes this to ie fact that the children see leir parents ordering native ser mts around from the tenderest %e. By the time they are four r five, they are quite capable f ordering adult natives around lemselves, and then ifs only a latter of time before they are 9t only telling their teachers hat to do, but also telling their irents what to do.