SCHOOL “HOWLERS”
QUOTED BY MR APPLETON Several schoolboy “howlers” were quoted by the . chairman of the Wellington, Technical College Board of Governors. Mr W Appleton, when speaking at the annual breaking-up ceremony of the college. , They- included:— , A boy, asked his opinion of Nero, replied that the, less said about Nero ,the better. A.boy .'defined a cone as a unit of icecream measurement.A Conservative is a house-for green things full of hot air. - Referring to the widow's cruze, a boy said Elijah was a prophet who went for a cruise with a widow. -.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23688, 21 December 1938, Page 7
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