ROUGHING IT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2157, 25 May 1914, Page 5

ROUGHING IT

■ SCHOOL INSPECTING IN THE EARLY DAYS. In a reminiscent rein at the Education Board's meeting ou Friday, Mr. Robert Lee, the retiring ehainnnn, reistcfi some of his exjierk'iices of school insfjectinc in the early flays, ITp said lio «>n!d remeinher riding froiv. AVbodviiio to. Konnsranga in a day. fn times ivlieji f.hpy )'.,'!(! to no to "the bottom of tliinjrs"—that is, there were nr> hritises and fr>w Toails, nnd, She river?, had .to ho forclrd or swum; \ Tfc conljl I'-nmmn-bor having tw swim the Otnki mirl tlio WaiK-anae Rivers on his round r»f scliool iiwntßtioji. Onrn lie was neavly bngfrtnl altogether nt Onirt.lw, nenr Wangawii. "'flo had to bc'tlug'o«t and scrnjxvl clown wiCn a \rs a sett/er's wife, am/ in tnat pfe«c Aarf to oxbivi'hw a st\wA, 3fr. Lee lias had to sleep wit iin<?nr flax livisli with his saddle, for a pillow, and in Matlhoiough on one- occasion Tne lost U>e tvftck, awd e SMron miles out of his way towards Cnpc Caivi'nVjeW. 'VAww V vtaa slvavin ft shuvt cut nertm roimtry to tho place lie wishto po 4 ,t). The mivn took, him tn the top of a hill ami gave him is direction line, lwt he wfiuJd'scumer hav<> gone ~Ai miles round than those eight or tw> miles acrofii comiiry. (LanKhffir.) TliJiv Were ronsh txisi'i-ipnecs. yot hn l<inUod leek on'those oarly siiiys with tlio greatest pleasure oven now.