SPECIAL SUBJECT WEEK.

Otago Witness, Issue 2883, 23 June 1909, Page 91

SPECIAL SUBJECT WEEK.

PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE WRITERS

WANTED.

It seems absurd , to remind you all that

another week has passed;, you know that for yourselves. Still, the - fact bears a significance to all those who intend fo write a story for Special Subject "Week, and who have not yet done bo. I remember in my schooldays we used to have an essay to write on a certain topic during our holidays. Our intentions were always good. We would 1 firmly make up our .minds to ge£ that essay done before the third day home from school had passed. We put it off day after day, until a point had been reached when the very thought of that essay made us angry. Now, I don't want to compare the stories of our Special Subject week with those compulsory essays; still even that which is a pleasure to us may be converted into a task if p-ostpomedl too long a time. This week, then, I aim hoping to receive alarge budget of s-tories. Now Shasta has made an excellent suggestion, and wdth the kind permission of the editor of the Witness •we are going to carry it out. .It is this: That all Old Writers (and others if they wish) who contribute & story to the Special Subject Week be invited to send a photograph of themselves -along with the story for publication m the Witness. These will appear in the same issue as the stories. It will be interesting for Old Writers to see tho change that has taken place in the personal appearance of their comrades of earlier days. This, of course, is not binding on any one. There are those, perhaps, who have no photographs of .themselves at present, but ■ who would have one taken. This will not be ready in time to send with their stories, but that need not deter them. The photograph may be- .sent later. Let me reprint the subject once more: A. STORY OP THE EARLY DAYS . IN

NEW ZEALAND.