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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 May 1936, Page 14

A common but dangerous practice in vogue among school children, particularly primary and secondary boys, in the placing or sliding of a pen or a lead pencil down the leg of a stocking, states the “Hawke’s Bay Herald.” At Mahora School on Friday, after dismissal, a Maori boy named Harry Taylor had a pen so placed, and in ordinary running the pen was touched by the other leg, with the result that the nib became embedded in the flesh below the knee. All efforts to' withdraw the nib failed, and the lad had to be sent to the Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital for treatment.