"NOT ALL BEER AND SKITTLES"

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 12 December 1912, Page 7

"NOT ALL BEER AND SKITTLES"

EXPERIENCES IN THE BACK'

BLOOKS

SCHOOiL INSPECTORS HAVE A

ROUGH TIME,

A NARROW ESCAPE.

tSchool inspectors do not always travel about the country in motor cars and' railway trains, and at times sdme of them have " experiences" in visiting the way-back sch'uoils, as the foltowing extraot froim the report of Mr Braik, < Chief Inspector, will show:—

" The .back blocks schools (were vdsited und^adivense weather coinditions, and two of the inspectors avail ihiave reason to reineimfber the nature of tho roads. One fbund himseilf, at one point, making over a ibank in mmpjany with his horse, towpardis ia- river many feet below, and ibut for; the provddential inteppoaitioai of some scrub, the consquences would) Siare ibeem eerioais. V Another, on a journey of many miles, found has iroad clean gone, and hod to get the assietance of come young men who happened tb fbe engaged in tlie bush near by, to get the horse land trap out of the anud, amd to make a detour to reach tihe rtotadl again. Venilyj the life of a school insDeetor isn't ail beer and fiikittil-