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Otago Witness, Issue 3862, 20 March 1928, Page 73

“It is the sunlight that is beneficial. We can often get too much heat from the sun,” said Dr Phillipps in his lecture on open-air schools in Christchurch the other night (reports the Lyttelton Times). “ School teachers should see that the children get plenty of sunlight, but they should be kept cool.” The new Richmond School, built on the old system, cost £9OOO for seven classrooms, according to Dr .R. B. Phillipps. The Fendalton Open-air School, he added, cost about £4OO a room. Two Maori girls named Agnes Moon and Hariata Ilcemie, aged 10 and nine years respectively, whilst swimnyng in the Waikato River recently, got into difficulties. Hine Garmonsway, another Maori girl, aged 18 'years, happened to arrive upon the scene just as the; two were beginning to show, signs of sinking. Hine, witnout considering her • own danger, jumped into the swift-running river without discarding her clothes, and after great difficulty, and with the assistance of her younger sister Rita, who arrived a few minutes later, managed to get the young girls ashore in a very exhausted state.