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Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1889, 27 April 1928, Page 4

“When ;i. m:m is sentenced to reformative.! detention, it is only differenti from a sentence of hard labour in ono particular—that is, he wears a different coloured shirt,” said theRev. Charles Chandler, prison worker of Auckland. “Homework is a regular post,” said .Mr F. Capes, who presided at the householders’ meeting at Northland school, Wellington, “There* is no douht the ways of teaching now arc different from those when I was a hoy hut nowadays children worry for hours, night after night, over their homework, and. may have to practice music also. It takes up far too much of their time in the- evening.” In supporting Mr Capes. Captain Mnoindoo said that homework was often very inconsistent, and that children were taken to see moving pictures during school hours when they should he doing their lessons. It was decided that* a recommendation should lie sent to the- School Committees’ Association that homework' should he kept down to an absolute minimum.

'Ait Englishman in Paris, writing to a friend in Auckland, relates the following amusing incident, illustrative of how they do things in. France. Thedriver of a. two-horse lorry, winch was heavily laden with hales of cotton, chose for his midday siesta, a busy place like- the Quai du Louvre, opposite the Pont du Carroussal. He was a. kindly'man, and had taken off the horses’ bridles and fastened on their nosebags before tumbling two males of cotton on to the footpath for Ills own couch. Ho slept soundly, oblivious of the- noise of traffic that rumbled and honked around him. Right in the heart of tlie city, on the Boulevard des Italiens, a. man and his wife were displaying mechanical toys to passersby. When the hour 6f midday approached, madame retirod to the kerb and there prepared and cooked, on a tiny charcoal stove, a succulent meal. This attracted no attention from the Parisians.