SUN AND AIR

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 10

SUN AND AIR

CLASS-ROOM AT KARORI

A new class-room of tue open air type was used for the first time at the Karori West School yesterday. The room, which accommodates 36- infants, has folding glass doors opening out on to a verandah, and represents the most modern type of class-room.

The new room was officially declared open yesterday afternoon by Mr. R. A. Wright, M.P. for Wellington Suburbs, who remarked that the day of the openair school had at last come in Wellington. He expressed the opinion that Wellington would probably see many more such class-rooms.

Mr. A. W. Free, chairman of the school committee, presided, and a number of parents of scholars attended.

are taught by Rotary more and more to x-ealise what an important element in every man is the desire to • give friendly service. By experience we feel more and more that the part that binds us to our fellow-man —the'desire to help him —is a bigger part than we imagine. We find that that is really the true man; that the part of us that gives service is the friendly part of us, the helpful part of us, and that that part is really, far more than ever we thought, the true man within us. In saying that Rotary does this for us, we are saying that Rotary really has its foundation in truth. It brings out the real man; it is working in accordance with evolution; it is really one of the world's great forces, in other words." The Minister concluded by extending his best wishes for a successful conference. THE TASK, NOT THE REWARD. The Mayor, after extolling the attractions of the capital city, referred to the ideal of service before self. As he understood it, the real meaning of them I was that, one must think of the task rather than of the reward. All could subscribe to that principle, but let them not subscribe to it to the extent of utterly forgetting self. Unless they got some reward they could not develop, all those things that made for a full and active life. "We must so develop ourselves," said Mr. Hislop, "so as to get as near as we can to the fullest culture of man. As people partaking in that work I most cordially welcome you." This afternoon the chairman adI dressed the conference on "Kotary's i Aims and Objects."