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BELGRADE
Geneva, To-day.
The British Government has not committed it- self in detail to the particular scheme of partition outlined in the Royal Commission's Report on Palestine, stated the Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. Ormsby-Gore, advocating the proposals before the League of Nations permanent Mandates Commis- sion yesterday..
Mr. Ormsby-Gore opined that con- stitution of a boundary commission was essential to enable formation of
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AT SCHOOL
THINGS BLACK FOR BLACKBOARDS
He pointed out that the proposals involve negotiations with Jews and Arabs, if they are willing to nego- tiate, and preparation of a definite scheme for submission to the Man- dates Commission, as well as a re-
Many thousands of school black-ferendum for drafting treaties,
subsidiary financial and military boards in all parts of England may
agreement and a modified form of have to be scrapped-if tests now mandate for those parts of Pales- being carried out by psychologists are successful.
time for which the British Govern ment will continue to act as manda- tory.
They are not satisfied with the blackboard as it is now. They think
NOT AN EASY TASK children could read more easily It would be foolish to imagine from a lighter coloured board, and that this is going to be an easy are experimenting with boards vary task, Mr. Ormsby-Gore said, but- ing in colours from buff to pale in the view of the British Govern- ment the difficulties must be over- primrose
More than 1,000 tests, in all types come, for they were of the opinion Three further against the Government by mem-of schools, are being made by Mr. that a scheme on such lines was the
of the Orthodox Church, W. D. Seymour on behalf of the best solution
Belgrade, To-day.
demonstrations
to the Cabinet's approval of the Concordat with the Roman Catholic Church, took place yester day.
Meanwhile no members of the
Cabinet attended the funeral of the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, who died on Tuesday, as all mem- bers had been excommunicated by the Church-Reuter
27 Dead In Rail Smash
Parks, To-day.
National Institute of Industrial Reuter. Psychology. They are part of a general inquiry now being conduct- ed into general school conditions.
to
the deadlock.
same
Among other things to be inves-blackboard, then do the tigated will be heating lighting, black on a light coloured board. "If the average time taken chairs and desks.
copying the second passage is short- er, all other things being equal, we conclude that the light board is more advantageous.
Light Rehef
"We think that a lighter colour ed board is more psychologically stimulating for children, besides be ing easy to read and copy from, Mr. Seymour said.
"We have already found, in pre- Two persons injured in the rail- liminary tests, that children were way disaster at Villeneuve Stable to copy more from a primrose Georges have since died, bringing coloured board than from a stand
ard black one. the total death roll so far to 27:
Several other injured are in a critical condition Trans-Ocean.
"Of course, that is only a rough explanation. Actually, our calcala tions are much more complicated, for we use the statistical method.
"We shall publish our findings later in a report, and no doubt our recommendation will be passed on to local education authorities to adopt "Our test is roughly as follows. light coloured boards that is, We stencil a passage in white on awe find they are necessa
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