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Marlborough Express, Volume LXVIII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 2

Alberta (Canada) has a „new and flourishing industry — the development of a vast 'depasit of fossilised oyster she 11s. Once in a vast inland sea, the shell deposit is now on the side of a hill. Ground, this material is vaiuable for pig and chicken feed. Drawing is not a strong subject (state the Otago school inspectors, in their annual report). The progress school children do not make in 'drawing, as compared with what they do make in such subjects as reading and arithmetic, must give one pau.se and leads to no conclusion other than that drawing does not get its due. We hope to see a marked uplift in this subject, and would stress the pcint that illustrative work is the correct starting point for formal practice. An object is worth drawing only in so far as it bears relation to a setting. Children should have much more opportunity of using drawing as a language. No matter how crude an effort may be, it is, from the point of view of art, worth something if it has motlve and expresses thought- and feellng.