LEFT LUGGAGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 62, 18 March 1913, Page 4

LEFT LUGGAGE.

When the periodical advertisementappear notifying that another sale o “left luggage” will take place, astonishment is commonly expressed a the absent-mindedness and carlessnes of those who travel by train or bon that necessitate such a sale. But i would appear from the report cf th headmaster of one of Dunedin’ schools to the School Committee tha tii© “embryo” of this indifferenc starts in the young mind at school the “Otago Daily Times” says.. Th report showed that at the end of las year there was such an accuraulatior in the school of dust-gathering un claimed personal effects, for which n« owners could be found, that the head master forwarded it to one of the or plumages. Then there was exhibite< for the edification and information o committeemen the accumulation sine the school opened this year. Du consisted of about thirty articles principally hats and overcoats, belonging to both sexes. This del nol represent all the articles which hat been carelessly left, because the sclmo staff had been successful in fin i'u;;

owners for quite as many more. Arc this school does not seem to no ain exception in this respect, but is • ypi cal of all the others. There is font hero for thought. The parents oi these children are evidently so well off that they can afford to buy new articles without much inquiry as tr what became of the original article, and there seems to be a remarkable lack of the sense of duty on the pari of scholars themselves. The man'-, lest duty to be careful of their personal property ought to he instilled o • to the young mind—preferably thr nigh the head, but if unsuccessful there, then in a more forcible and very often more effective manner through some corporal portion of the human anatomy, both by teachers and parents. If this were done, there would perhaps in after life not bo so ranch “unclaimed luggage” come under lira auctioneer’s hammer.