FROM SOUTH AFRICA

Grey River Argus, 14 April 1916, Page 3

FROM SOUTH AFRICA

:'.:■■ / ■•." - — •'" ' ' m — — ' An advertisement appeared in the Natal "Mercury" for a male teacher in a small village school in Zululand. A friend of mine applied for the post and inquired the number of children, the salary; and what the curriculum was. t He received a reply from the chairman of the village Board stating /that the numbefs.of children was so many, the salary so much, and the curriculum consisted of two roms— a kitchen and a bathroom-! A new arrival from Great Britain occupied a room next to mine in a certain house on the Berea in Durban, a place much infected in those days with mosquitoes. Over each, bed was hung a mosquito, curtain, which in the daytime was folded behind the head of the bed and looked like a large bag : at night it is, of course, drawn all over the bedstead. The newcomer came to me one morn ing and complained that', he could not sleep for the mosquitoes." "But," I said, "you have a mosqiutonet?'' ' i