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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16448, 30 May 1919, Page 7

It was stated at a meeting of the Education Board in Otago recently that there were in the district some 40 residences of teachers which were unoccupied. It appears that this state of things is not confined to the Otago district. The Minister of Education has recently not been regularly approving applications for grunts- for teachers’ residences unless special reasons were advanced for the building of a. house. Coreful inquiry is being made in every case. It is provided in the salary clauses and schedules of the Act that a teacher in charge of a school must receive a house allowance if no house is provided for him. “Me and two other chaps,” said the soldier, “was billeted with a newlymarried couple. I sez to her one day, ‘Missus, could you make us a pudden?’ ‘Well, sonny,’ gez she, T’ve never made one, hut I’ll have a try if you’ll tell me what sort youjd like.’ Wo all thought a roly-poly jam one would bo nice. ‘How do you mek it P’ sez she. ‘Well,’ I sez, ‘you tek some paste, roll* it out, spread jam on, and boil it.’ That night we didn’t get in till seven, and we was some hungry,' I tell yeiT ‘Puddon’s ready, sonny,’ sez she. ‘All right, missus. We’ll ’ave our meat and taters first,’ I sez. Then she brought in the pudden. When she turned it out it looked like a retriever pup. ‘Missus,’ I sez, ‘there’s tuppence upstairs in me coat pocket; go and get its hah - cut.’ She had boiled it in a woollen stocking 1” A New Zealand girl who heard the story commented that the lady in question must have been one of the English wives.