There is an Auckland school where two generations of young Aucklanders have had a grim, if necessary, building within their vision. One day last week (relates the "Star") a teacher recited to the class this extract from Gray's "Elegy": "Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." "What," asked the teacher, "is meant by 'each in his narrow cell?' " And 75 per cent, of the children shouted: "Mount Eden Gaol!"
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1929, Page 12
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