At Johnsonville last Thursday evening Master Conway Williams, son of Mr C. de C. Williams, a Wellington phrenologist, gave an address on the " Faculties of the Brain,” to demonstrate a system of mental culture for school children, which Mr Williams intends to present to the public by means of platform addresses and a work on the subject-. The - hall was well filled, and great ’interest was taken in the ten-year-old boy orator, who concluded his effort amid prolonged applause. Master Williamsj who has only been attending School for two years, is in the second standard at Newtown school. His elocutionary power, and the clearness with which he described- twenty-two of the mental faculties, pointing out the organs on a chart as lie proceeded, are ' evidences of careful trailing and great anfitufhw " ' '' s‘- 5 ‘-
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1665, 27 January 1904, Page 18
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133Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1665, 27 January 1904, Page 18
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