Title: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2, Issue 24 (29 December 1888)

Editor: Robert Coupland Harding

In: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2

Publication details: Robert Coupland Harding, 1888, Napier

Part of: Typo

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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One of our New Zealand mayors has fallen in love with some Yankee school-books that he saw at the Melbourne exhibition, and is agitating for something of the kind to be introduced here. He says they inculcate « patriotism » with the earliest lessons. Not only are the infants taught the « duty » of buying nothing but home-made articles; but they are further instructed that American goods are better than those of any other country. Of course, in our case « New Zealand) » (or more probably « Auckland ») would have to be substituted. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mentiri.