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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 118, 16 February 1928, Page 5

The gem of the Southland lakes is undoubtedly Lake Hauroto, and, strange to say*, though it is the nearest lake to Invercargill, no accessible road for motor or vehicular traffic has yet been formed to permit visitors to see its shores (reniaiks the “Orepuki Advocate”). Lake Hauroto lies onlv four hours’ motor run almost dim west from Invercargill. The road lies via Wallacetown, Otautau, Orawia, Clifden bridge and up the Lillburn road. This last stretch of the road between Clifden and Lillburn, a distance of twelve miles, is already formed, and fit for motor traffic as far as Mr. S. Gardner’s homestead. The remaining stretch, a distance of nine miles, has already been cleared, and four miles through open country and five miles through the prettiest bush country imaginable. Formation .and gravelling of tiiis remaining nine miles is now the onlv barrier, and a good deal of the formation lias already been carried out on the open stretch. In consequence of the. large number* of illiterates among criminals in lurKisn orisons. the authorities are begin a course of instruction for such prisoners. They are to be taught at least to read and write.. No prisoner will be discharged, whatever bis sentence, until he knows his alphabet The "science of phrenology . had Its origin toward the end of the eighteenth eentur.v. and was the result of great acuteness of perception m a p p r. mall schoolboy named Franz Joseph Gall.