RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29739, 5 February 1962, Page 21

RANDOM REMINDER

TORCH BEARERS

Tomorrow will be marked by the celebration of independence day by mothers all over Christchurch, as their children return to school. It is the fond hope of this column that some of those starting secondary school this week will be reading these lines, for it is proposed to offer them some advice.

First and foremost, be clean. It causes less revulsion among masters at the start of another school year. Remember that you are setting out on the most important training period of your life. Apply yourself, be diligent, conscientious.

Ask questions. Never let your teacher pass on to something else if you do not understand what he has been talking about. Be early for school every day; it is a grand habit. Look after your equipment: sharp boys, it used to be said, had sharp pencils. Don t lose your caps or hats. They are very expensive to replace, and the loss of them tends to make you look untidy. Spend more than the stipulated time on your home-work; extra hours are like bank savings. Volunteer for extra duties at school, learn to take part. Play all the games you can, and play

them hard, while adhering strictly to the rules and to the unwritten laws of sportsmanship. Don't loiter on your way home, talking to pupils from some other school. Get homo as soon as possible ahd see what you can do to help your mother. Give up the smoking habit—now! And as you get into a senior class don't (if your are a girl) overdo the lipstick. Be punctual, courteous, kind, conscientious: Jn fact make a big effort to do everything yd|e parents somehow failed to do.