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Q. It must have been a bit disconcerting?
A. Oh one gets used to it.
Q. Can you remember when the Log Book itself started?
A. No I suppose I read it through and put it to one side. I
hadn’t the interest that you have.
Q. Did anyone come around and ask for surveys of the school?
A. Oh no, I don’t think anyone ever did that.
Q. The attendance officer came very regularly according to your
reports in the present Log Book.
A. Oh yes. Mr. Fox, he fought in the First World War, and got
decorated at the Dardanelles. The attendance used to be very
poor at one time. You see all the parents – they don’t now
because there is not the fruit farms – they all used to work
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fields, of course if the baby wanted minding
the school children had to mind it.
Q. What about types of children and numbers of children. What
sort of books did you have?
A. When I first went to Ash, we had just the ordinary readers. I
changed to the P.N.E.U. system. They worked by that entirely.
Q. What about arithmetic books?
A. I finished up with the B&A I believe. There were some
very old fashioned arithmetic books when I went there called the
‘National’. They started with addition, additions of
millions they went into, then subtraction pages and pages. Then
multiplication and finally division. The next book would begin
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