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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2748, 21 June 1924, Page 3

Asked what material he used to build a house with at yesterday’s SAL Court, a witness said a pencil and paper. “But,” said counsel, “don’t you use a hammer or saw’/” “No,” replied the witness, “only a pencil and paper—but others do the work.” The Manaia Witness heaves a brick at Dr. Elizabeth Gunn’s advocacy of open-aii' teaching in the Taranaki schools. Our contemporary says: “That lady is reported as having said, at New Plymouth, that Taranaki teachers have an aversion to teaching anywhere but within four solid walls, preferably concrete; and that what was needed was the open-air type of school with a a-oof and one solid wall on the weather side. Oh Doctor! Spare us our- little ones! Take the old topers and;retired idlers, but do not increase the number of our boys and girls who suiter from throat and nasal troubles.”