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Otago Witness, Issue 3859, 28 February 1928, Page 16

One expense in connection with the upkeep of schools to be borne by school committees out of their funds is the repairing of broken windows. At a meeting of the Kowhai (Auckland) Junior High School Committee the chairman (Mr A. A. Buckley) reported that the committee was faced with the work of replacing no fewer than 46 broken windows. A Sunday school teacher in Invercargill has added one more to the cofiection of ingenuous remarks of young New Zealanders (says the Times) ’ The teacher was testing the memory of members of bis class, and aked them: “ What was the text from which tbe minister preached last Sunday?” A blank silence followed Then a childish face brightened and a treble voice announced: "Please, sir, his text was * We will now take up the offering ! ’ ” Some six years ago a Wanganui resident had the misfortune to put his foot through, a window. The wound caused by the accident soon healed up, and nothing more was thought about it until a few days ago, when a black spot was noticed on tbe heel (says the Chronicle). Pain at this part soon caused Him to visit a doctor and a few minuses’ work with, surgical instruments disclosed a large piece of glass which had been lodged in the foot for over six years.