NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2811, 15 November 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Al this time of tlie year, when examinations are in full swing, the monotony of tlie daily application to puzzling' questions and tin' writing of essays on all manner of subjects is occasionally broken by the unconscious “howlers” committed by young aspirants for school honours (stales the Evening Post). A good one come to light in a. Wellington school the other day. Among other questions on civics, Ltie pupils were asked to describe how the laws of the land were made, and one youngster, whose sense of hearing was evidently much keener than his sense of vision, and who also knew something of the procedure of Parliament, made the following reply: “When a law is made the Speaker stands up and calls out ‘Lock the doors!'' He then cajls out ‘Divide!’ and those who want to get it go out of a door with ‘eyes’ written above it, and those who don’t want to go out a door with ‘nose’ written above it.”

“I have actually seen a hoy put his head on his hand.-, and go to sleep,” the Director of' the Christchurch Technical College, l)r 1). H. Hansen told the Board of Governors. He was referring to the fact -that hoys working all day were tired when they attended the evening classes at the college. and even the keen ones sometime;.; i-.v sleepy. He urged that instruction should he given in the day classes. Referring to the hoy who had fallen asleep, Dr. Hansen caused a laugh when he said: “T know that for a fact; I was the teacher.”