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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 11

Yellow Blackboards. An English movement in favour of primrose yellow “blackboards,’’ on which writing is done in blue chalk, is mentioned in National Education, the organ of the New Zealand Educational Institute. The writer, Mr. H. J. Thornton, secretary of the Nelson Education Board, writes that he brought several of the boards from England last year and distributed them to teachers, but in almost all cases the opinions given were unfavourable. He has since learned that the English experiment is being gradually abandoned, and his own view is that the dark green boards used in New Zealand with white chalk are difficult to improve upon. Christmas comes but once a year, And when it comes—why, then, it’s here; But this of colds we cannot say, They come, they go, they often stay, And merge into a nasty cough, Which we have trouble to drive off. Vain the attempts unless we procure A bottle of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.