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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 4036, 31 December 1929, Page 2

To illustrate how great care

must be taken by parents in the matter of supervising their children’s reading, the Rev. James Burns, who addressed the Areherficld pupils at their prize-giving, ceremony, at Dunedin, related the experience of a minister who happened to be in Christchurch on a lecturing visit. Before leaving the city his hostess told him’ that he(r girl, aged 15 or; 16 years,; was - very fond of reading. Thinking he would encourage her in her love of literature, he made up his mind that he would give her a book which a girl of her years should appreciate. The story that he eventually decided upon was Ethel Turner’s “Seven little Australians.” To be on the safe side, however, he issued instructions that it was to (be ehan- - * ged if she had read it or if it was not to her liking. Later he learned that the book had been changed for “All Quiet on the Western Front.”