DAVID LOW
Sir-In your issue November 5-11 you have an article by Tom Driberg, M.P., giving a "pen portrait" of Low. On page 7 under the sub-heading "The First Cartoon" it appears that David, bern in 1891 (which is correct) was, at the age of 11, taken "away from school, schooling not being compulsory then in New Zealand." In the Christchurch Boys’ High School magazine of May, 1923, there is a letter from David Low dated 11th December, 1922, which has this sentence: "It is difficult to realise that it is twenty years since I squirted ink on Mr. Merton’s walls. Ah me!" and just below it is recorded that Low was at the school in 1905 and 1906, that is, when he was 14 and 15. These latter dates are, I think, the authentic ones. Mr. Dribertg should perliagé be informed that it was the Education Act of 1877 which made primary education in New Zealand "free, compulsory, and secular."
F. A. DE LA
MARE
(Hamilton).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 335, 23 November 1945, Page 5
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167DAVID LOW New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 335, 23 November 1945, Page 5
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