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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12616, 20 November 1911, Page 5

There is a . continued unsatisfied demand for dwellings for the working class m Auckland.; Miss Gillam, formerly on the staff of the Napier Girls' High School, who . is pursuing her studies m France, m a; letter to the secretary of the Board of Go-, . vernoys, says: — "This is rather a critioal time, iv. .the educational world m, France., Newspapers ai*e crying out against v the' modern system.' Business men object: that the clerks . they get are not nearly so well-trained as heretofore, and big engineering firms are declaring that tlv? boy who has learnt his 'small Latin. and less Greek' is much more capable m that branch of work than the boy who has gone through the school taking only those subjects as are 'useful.' After all even m these, prosaic utilitarian days much is tobosaidfor teaching one ttn'ng | thoroughly, even if.it be Latin.. The laborious hours spent at Latin are after all not wasted. I am more and more rea- : lising that; this one thing well don© does not jtend to narrow the power of the intellect, but rather braces it ' up . and makes it 'more efficient, and. at the same disciplines character also."