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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22416, 25 August 1947, Page 3

Teachers’ Nicknames "It is probably a healthy sign flint more teachers are becoming known to their pupils bv their Christian names or some affectionate diminutive of their surname than by their personal peculiarities or excessive virtues or vices,” said Mr Gordon Troup to the New Education Fellowship in Christchurch. “A boy finds something human in a master who does lose his temper, compared with the frigid aloofness of ‘this hurts me more than it hurls you.’” The bullv was not usually very proficient with his head or his hands. Mr. Troup mentioned that learning of a father’s anxiety for a thoughtful son! who was being bullied and felt lie had no friends, lie had recently spent Saturday afternoons giving the lad “a few of 1 lie elementary notions of selfdefence'’ to prepare him for what might come. “It came last Monday, a stone heavier and proportionately larger," he added, amid laughter. “The boy’s chief jov was in the head’s intervention on behalf of (he bully.” KIBS IN lIIS IIIBS. They were jammed in a crowd and couldn't move. “Mv tin of KiBS", said one of them, “is jammed iri my ribs.” “They’re great for clearing away huskiness," ssid his friend. Speakers and singers should always keep <IBS handy. 9d. a - tin. Manufac.ll led by Mayceys & Co., 385 Khyber Pass Hoad, Auckland.