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Otago Witness, Issue 3959, 28 January 1930, Page 50

A good story was told bv Mrs Clark at the New Plymouth Summer School dis,theried',?^ lon of Maori s (says P® a J anal ', 1 Hera,cl )- She said that at her school they have regular discussion on subjects chosen by the pupils themselves. A visitor arrived one morning just in time to hear the discussion, with which he wa s much impressed. He afterwards asked to be allowed to see the smaller children and hear what they had to say. On entering the room he found a small girl playing, or working with some buttons. He asked her to tell him something about buttons, and looking up into his face she replied in a Way which was a little surprising: “Buttons! oh but we don’t use buttons now; we elastic.” Mrs Clark said she and the visitor enjoyed the joke, and she left him trying to find out how much more the child knew about buttons.