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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 44, 22 September 1887, Page 2

At the Dunedin Education Board last week Dr. Brown questioned the wisdom cf offerin < praise on the one hand to teachers who had succeeded in obtaining a large percentage of passes, and censuring on the other haul teachers who had not been «o successful, without taking into consideration other features of teaching. He also stated that reports were occasionally heard of children of schools where large percentages of passes were obtained having extra work thrown on them, and of having longer hours. Some other members of the Board expressed concurrence with Dr. Brown’s remarks. It has long been a mania ot Baron Alphonse Rothschild to disguise himself in the morning and at nightfall as a blouse-working artisan, and pay court to work girls going to or returning from their work, in the hope of finding among them some pearl ot rare price whom he could induce, before raining down gold on her, to love him for himself,