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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int J B
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       RB:  I think I met one of them again when I went to Girls'  High. She 
used to sit next to me.  I don't remember her name now.  What I do remember is 
that every day the teacher used to count the  pupils.  Forty odd girls, forty 
odd boys in the class with one teacher.  Now I ask you, who would teach a class 
like that these  days?  If she was lucky she had a pupil teacher to help her.  
Otherwise she dealt with ninety pupils herself.  It wasn't just a  flat floor.  
The rows went up so the back rows were right up the top.
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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Mrs JB 1983
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*INT	JUST SOME BACKGROUND QUESTIONS FIRST.  WHAT IS THE DATE OF YOUR BIRTH?  
*INT	SCHOOLING.  WHERE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL?
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JB	Well.  I went to Caversham School and when I was in Standard  One - no I 
can go back further than that.  When I was three I stuck a  needle in my eye so 
I'm blind in one eye now.  I had three operations  on that eye and they were 
going to do a fourth one but then they  found that I had a heart defect.  They 
didn't do the fourth  operation.  Anyway when I was about six, in those days 
they had a  doctor and a nurse who came round the school every year and examined  
every child in the school.  I always got singled out.  In those days  the Sara 
Cohen School in Rutherford Street was a school for disabled  children.  It's now 
for mentally handicapped children, but in those  days it was for disabled 
children.  These doctors and nurses in their  wisdom decided they would send me 
there.  I was there for four years.  I would say there were about thirty 
children at that school.  We had  a very basic education.  We had to have a rest 
in the afternoon.  We  learnt to write and read but we didn't get taught history 
and  geography or anything like that. When I was in Standard Five I was sent 
back to Caversham School.  So  I was landed into a big school in Standard Five 
which was quite  devastating.  I'll never forget my first day at school back to  
Caversham they were working with fractions.  I didn't know what a fraction was.  
Anyway I managed to catch up.  Then I went to Tech.  I  wanted to be a school 
teacher but they decided that I wasn't fit  enough so I had to go to Tech.
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JB	We had English.  They were very particular about English and  handwriting.  
You notice nowadays children's print,  I think it's  because the teachers 
haven't got the patience.  They were very  meticulous about learning to write.  
You had to write in a certain  way.  They were very particular about English and 
grammar.  Is a was  were now and then.  I can remember if you say not only you 
also say  but also.  You'll notice a lot of very well educated people on  
television always say not only they also say but also.  People who don't really 
know will say not only but.  You are supposed to use  also.  If you say 
different, you say different from and not different  to.  They were very 
particular about that sort of thing.  So that was  English, writing, arithmetic 
- you got a bang over the knuckles if you got things wrong, history, geography, 
spelling - you  got the strap if you got things wrong in spelling.  What else?  
Nature studies which was a very minor part of the syllabus.  They  spent most 
time on English, arithmetic - the three r's.

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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Colbert, Leslie
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LC	No I can't remember any particular reason.  But we didn't do  much in the 
way of wrong.  I was too scared.  He'd whack so hard  you'd wonder what was 
coming.  Scared the whits out of me.  We had a  schoolteacher like that at 
Caversham.  She eventually shifted down North East Valley and we got her again!  
She was in the infants  room at Caversham.  I wouldn't go back to school in the 
finish.  I  went there when I was five you see.  She had a strap and she'd stand  
on top of a form to use it.  She pick up the strap with both hands over her head 
and whack down like that.  No just standing  there, she had to get up on the 
form to do it every time.  Miss  Bowling.  She shifted down North East Valley 
and I got her in  standard five.  But she had something wrong with her.  She 
couldn't  help it, she just had to keep strapping people.
*INT	IF YOU CAN REMEMBER BACK TO SCHOOL AND YOU SAID YOU WENT TO  SCHOOL IN 
CAVERSHAM BUT NOT FOR VERY LONG.
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LC	I went to the Caversham School in College Street.  Not the  big school 
that's there now.  It was near the terminus there.  I  remember going to school 
one day and I got run over by a push bike  when I was crossing the road.  It was 
somewhere near the supermarket.  It was just a bare looking infants room.  There 
were  plenty of kids there.  I suppose there were 40 or 50 of them.  My  brother 
was in that class.  I think the first two or three years must  have all been in 
the same room.  But I don't remember very much about it.  All I think of about 
that occasion was the teacher  standing up thrashing children.

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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Cummings/Manson part1
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	I:   CAN YOU REMEMBER ANY PARTICULAR TEACHERS THAT STICK IN YOUR MIND?
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	JM:  No, I think in those days, they gave you more, unless  they didn't 
punish you with the strap, they'd give you about 500  lines to write, to write 
it 10 times over or something like that.  Kept you going all the time.  If you 
didn't have it to report to the  teacher the next day, well you just, it was 
just too bad, you'd get  another 500, till you done them. You know, just write 
the same thing  over, I will not misbehave myself, or something like that, you 
know.

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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Denford, Frank
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++ Text units 196-196:
	FC:  ... was atmosphere and when I, there were 60 of us in  the sixth 
standard, that was the top standard, I don't know whether  they still have sixth 
standard or not [LD: yeah] well the school  teachers, the ah, teacher was named 
Mr Wilson, Stringy Wilson, he was  a long thin chap and he gave me the strap.  
Leather strap, two thongs  and I had the marks up on my wrist here for a week 
and why he gave me  the strap was because I didn't know the difference between 
an equal  lateral and an isosceles triangle and I was discussing this with Annie 
years afterwards, after she became a school mistress,  and she said, well she 
said Frank, why they were so severe was that  they had to get the passes in 
their classes to get their grading, to  get promotion, get their grades and they 
had to number, have the number of passes, so right, if it didn't go in easily, 
they  drove it in.  So, ah, under those circumstances school could be for  the 
not to bright children rather a very, a place of great  apprehension.

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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Mrs MD
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       So when the schools closed early, round about November ...  because we 
had had to - I had had to anyway, change schools, oh, this  will tell on 
somebody. Nobody liked the master in standard 6, he was  cruel, [indistinct], 
anyway mum reckoned she wasn't letting anybody go through his class, so she sent 
us to St. Clair, and we  didn't settle in there because there were so many at 
Caversham, there  was fifty in our class all through school till we got to 
standard 5,  but in standard 6 I was sent to St. Clair and the master there was 
- more than one was away at the war and the headmaster took  us, and we were 
miserable because when we went to stack - when we  went to Caversham the left 
standard teacher, he had formed a choir,  it was well known, the Caversham 
School Choir, we held a big concert every year, and he was very patient with us 
all, and we  changed all the war- songs that year, almost... 
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       BD:      I went to school and the teacher out there - we were  next to 
the river and he used to make me go and cut broomsticks  [indistinct] and all of 
a sudden you'd get a crack across the  shoulder and what not. We used to 
[indistinct]. We got the strap if
we didn't.

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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Gilbert, Mary
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++ Text units 99-99:
G	Oh yes, and we had strict teachers.  We were terrified of them.

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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Grigg, Russell
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TB	ANY TEACHERS YOU REMEMBER THAT STAND OUT IN YOUR MIND?
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G	Yes, quite a number really.  A teacher in the 6th standard  was Mr Bell.  
The Headmaster was Mr Paterson.
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G	Yes.  They had been there for many years teaching in the same school.
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G	Well they had a chap who came round teaching us.  Once or  twice I can 
remember him coming.  But he didn't come regularly.  He'd  march us around the 
playground.  But that wasn't a regular happening.

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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Grimmett, Bert
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++ Text units 317-317:
      BG:     To high school. The year after might have been more. But  there 
was only four what I can remember went to high school, which is  not many, 
because it was a fairly big class, and Caversham was ... in  the region of sixty 
people - eh, sixty children in the class, huge class. Chap named Wilson, he was 
there. Standard  teacher, I was scared of him ... frightening. In fact he was 
... he  used to teach at Green Island School, and he was more or less sacked  
from there, or shifted out from there, nearly killed a kid.

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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Hall, Frederick
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++ Text units 94-94:
FH: had chickenpox, the kids had a lot of ... like in the school  ...some of the 
classes at Forbury were 120, the teachers would go mad  today and the children 
were better educated then than they are today.  They wrote better, they spelt 
better, they spoke better and .. you  didn't get to the high school very easily 
either. They used to have  an extra standard for the people good enough to go to 
high school and  if you wanted to get in ....pay for it ... technical schools 
and then  you got three years free if you were lucky and ... you had to take 
three subjects. There was nothing so easy and 
that's why ... like when I look back ...

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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Horder, Vera May
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++ Text units 56-56:
VH	I can remember the Headmaster of Caversham School called Mr  Wilson who 
was a long tall thin man and everybody called him Stringy  Wilson and everybody 
was terrified by him because nobody got through  the sixth standard without 
getting the strap.  Now I'd got right  through to the fifth standard and I'd 
never had the strap.  I don't  know that I was model. I don't think I was, but 
I'd never had the  strap and this was worrying me going in to the sixth standard 
with Stringy Wilson. Would you believe it, he left the year I went to  the sixth 
standard. and then there was Miss [Farley?] whom was another teacher of the 
school, and Miss [blank]  who later  married Mr Begg who was Mayor of Dunedin. 
Don't quote me on this  publicly or I might get into trouble.

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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Ingram, C.W.N.
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SH:WHEN YOU WERE AT SCHOOL WHAT SORT OF SUBJECTS WERE THEY TEACHING? HOW 
DIFFERENT  AND HOW MUCH DIFFERENCE IS THERE BETWEEN NOW, THE SUBJECTS TAUGHT  
TODAY AND THOSE THAT YOU WERE TAUGHT?
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CI:I have two sons schoolteachers and I compare, talk with them quite  
rationally without any bombast and they agree that the foundation of  my 
education was much superior to theirs.
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CI:In English and arithmetic, we never got as far as mathematics,  geography and 
I think the teaching in those days was of a very, very  much higher standard.
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SH:DID YOU RECEIVE ANY INSTRUCTION FROM YOUR SCHOOLTEACHERS? DURING  SCHOOL TIME 
OR AFTER SCHOOL HOURS?
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CI:After school hours. The peculiar thing was one teacher was very  successful 
with the Macandrew Road School team and he was a soccer  player himself and a 
great cricketer but he coached rugby there and  he bought this Macandrew Road 
School up to a very high standard and  from there they graduated to the Southern 
Football Club and quite a  number of them went into the All Blacks.
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SH:AND WHAT EXACTLY COUNTED AS MISBEHAVIOUR APART FROM STICKING YOUR  TONGUE OUT 
AT THE TEACHER?
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CI: The last punishment I had was six of the best on the hand and we  were in a 
drill squad, a lady teacher was giving us physical  exercises, and I was in the 
back row and I knew that she couldn't see  me and I was going through a bit of 
skylarking. Next thing I knew was a tap on the shoulder, follow me, it was the 
headmaster.` I  knew the score. He bought out a 4-tailed strap and gave me three 
on  each hand. There was not a word spoken. When I went in I just put out  my 
hand, the other one, three on each and back to your class.
 ++ Text units 470-470: CI:Yes I think I did. I count myself extremely fortunate 
that the  schools I was in, the two schools I was in, the teachers were of the  
highest calibre. They were there to teach and they taught.

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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Kroon, Sam
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SK	Yes. I went through all the classes there right through. Knew  all the 
teachers. Some were good - well most of them were very good  actually.
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AS	WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT SOME OF THE TEACHERS?
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SK	They might get the strap occasionally. I suppose I did too -  I must have. 
They didn't use the cane or anything like that. Standard  five was a chap 
Renton. He was a good chap. Four was with Gawky  Robinson, he was great on 
teaching. He'd won stage shows, singing or something like that. Small plays, 
always used to be in those. Down to  the third was women teachers. One was Miss 
Ross. Standard two was  Miss Mcterson. Lower down than that I don't remember the 
names.

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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Maskell part 1
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MW:CAN YOU REMEMBER ANYTHING ABOUT THE TEACHERS? DID YOU LIKE THEM?
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RM: I was a wee bit afraid of them. Incidentally I only had a year,  very short 
time in the main school. I was born in September so I had  that third term and 
the next year I went into what was called model  school. It was a school, 
designed to give teachers in training,  college students, experience in a 
country school. I was in one that  went through ... to Form II and there would 
be four of us in Form II,  two girls and two boys, and I went through the whole 
school, six  years.
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MW:AND CAN YOU REMEMBER ANYTHING ABOUT THE TEACHERS THERE?
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RM: Oh yes. Bas Howarth? I suppose he gave me an interest in history  and in 
English. He actually lectured at varsity and became one of the  first liaison 
people between the secondary schools and varsity and he  wrote history. . .  it 
was the earliest recollection. Gussie Glasgow  from Science, he became a colonel 
in the Army. Head of Scots College and he also lectured at varsity. Monty 
McClymont  coached me rugby and he taught at varsity. He left secondary school  
teaching and went and lectured in history. Willy Morrell came back  from 
overseas and took over Monty's place. Angus Ross at that stage. And the famous 
Barney Campbell, Frank Hyde once taught  Campbell under him and never forgotten 
I'd say.

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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.McKeich, Ken
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SB: UH-HMM. SO THERE WAS A MAORI TEACHER AT FORBURY SCHOOL WHILE YOU  WERE 
THERE?
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KM: Don't know - Les Brown. And H P Mellor, the artist, he used to  teach at 
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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Mrs LMM '98
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       LMM:      We used to often, you know at night, do a lot of  painting and 
drawing and that, and I loved it a school, we had a good  teacher in standard 
five at Caversham High, form one now, a Miss  Foster, and she was really into 
all this art thing, and that's what mum and dad said at one time, we didn't send 
you to  school to learn to paint pictures. Learnt - sent you to learn other  
things, but I loved that, I really enjoyed that, and then ... up in  
[indistinct] after I'd taken art at Tech I went into a domestic course because I 
wanted to do the sewing, but I think I knew as much  as what the teacher did, 
she didn't teach us much, we did learn a wee  bit of drafting, to draft patterns 
and things, that was quite handy,  but oh, from [indistinct] I'd taken my art 
course, because I did really enjoy that.
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       LMM:      Yes, I liked school, you know, I was quite happy  there, sort 
of enjoyed my maths and sewing and drawing, they were my  main things that I 
liked the best of the lot, you know, oh, no I  quite - I didn't - oh, the odd 
teachers I didn't like, one I thought I didn't want to be in her class, and they 
put me in, she  must have looked at the list and then threw me out, so I didn't 
get  her, so I was quite glad, I was a bit scared of that one. But I  remember 
we had a very bad- tempered one in standard 4, that - you got the strap every 
spelling mistake you got you got the strap,  oh, you could take...
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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Mr JRMM
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JM: Headmaster, chap by the name of Thomas Coutts, he was a great  sportsman and 
that. At St Clair school. And a great teacher. Ran a  good school. And we always 
used to win the school sports, but he was  very much against Catholics. And he 
used to tell us that most of the Government servants were Catholics - they 
favoured, they got  all the key positions in Parliament the Catholics. He used 
to drum it  into us. Talking about these things - they just sort of come back.
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JM: He used to --- in those days, they used to come and take a class  the 
Headmaster would. For an hour, he might take a --- he used to  take us for 
music, I know that. And he might take an hour for maths  or something like that, 
just to see how the teacher was measuring up.  He was very, very much against --
- I remember this one day - that the  bulk of Government servants were 
Catholics, so you had to be Catholic  to get in that job.
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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Mr TR
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TR: Cos as I say in aspects I lived quite a sheltered life. I played  football 
for the Forbury School and I was one --- for two years I was  in the First 
Fifteen at the age of seven or eight or something. My  greatest achievement. As 
an aside there, Billy Grant was the teacher  in Standard six and when I came to 
Christchurch in 1960, he was still  alive and well. And that was 30 years later 
--- or more than that.
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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Roberts, Rose
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RR	Oh yes.  All the family went to school.  I was astounded when  I read in 
the paper that a lot of people in New Zealand could neither  read nor write.  I 
couldn't believe that.  There must be something  wrong with them.  We were all 
taught.  We have a Standard 6 teacher  Mr Wilson.  If you didn't pass your ?? it 
wasn't his fault.  He used  to hammer the life out of the kids, the boys 
especially but not so  much the girls.  He was a character.  I was in the school 
choir.  We  had a choir from the fourth standard up.  We thought we were set 
when  we went down South Dunedin and used the big hall down there for our 
concerts.  We used to give a concert twice a year or  something like that.  We 
had a very good teacher that was musically 
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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Roebuck, Lew
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LR	No it was arithmetic then.  Maths.  Well that, a drawing yes.  Geography 
and maths oh yes.  But this maths stone the crows.  I had a  run of teachers who 
seemed to have an obsession for figures.  You'd  get a bit of spare time, three 
or four minutes and what would they do?  Maths.  And there were these kids there 
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TB	CAN YOU REMEMBER ANY OF THE TEACHERS?
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LR	Funny thing, I went to so many schools that I get mixed up  with their 
names.  I think there was one decent sort of teacher.  Her  name was either 
Butterworth or Butterfield.  She was the only humane  one.  She should have been 
a nurse.
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LR	No.  And then my last teacher was well known.  He was way  before his 
time.  He came the last two years at Mornington School.  There was this Leslie 
Jack.  I wonder if he's alive today.  He lived  in Port Chalmers and he was a 
teacher all his life.  But I don't recall getting the strap from him.  He 
encouraged us on our talents.  I was very good at drawing.  He'd work it in with 
other things.  He  was really a lighthearted teacher.

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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Sidey, Stuart
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       SS:      So I'm, I'm - I have got no allegiances to anybody.  And my 
experiences in the infant room at Caversham I will never  forget. It was a long, 
a long sort of room, and there was a - it was  a big class, it was a Miss Ryan 
was the teacher, and we all sat on benches, you know, there were no desks, all 
sat in rows on the  benches, and we learned things by repetition, and we learned 
to sing  the beastly things, you know, I can remember now - is that working?
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       SS:      Eh ... St. Clair was quite an experience for me. There  was a 
woman called Russell who was a, a teacher in the - oh, it would  be standard ... 
I can't remember now, it might be three or - two,  three or four, and she held 
the classes, what - I think it ended up as being the [indistinct], I'm not quite 
sure, anyway, she  was a real tartar and she put the fear of death into the 
whole place,  she was a big, dominant woman and she used the strap, strap, you  
know, it was quite something, I tell you. Everybody were in mortal  fear. Old Ma 
Russell. And then I had another year down there. We did  spent one winter for 
some reason - mum - at a boarding house down  there, I don't know why that was, 
and - MacMillan I think was the  master, that would be about standard four or 
five.

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+++ ON-LINE DOCUMENT: int.Thorn, Patricia
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       PT:      Oh ... I can't really recall any at this stage in  those ... oh, 
I used to like adventure stories and not - there were  certain one - and I think 
there were - I think it was a school lib -  there was a school library in 
standard 6, because our, our teacher  was a Mr Robinson and he was interested in 
- he encouraged people to  read, you know, and there was, there was books there 
that you could  take from the class room, he had quite a stack of books ... oh, 
now I  can't - look, I couldn't recall the names, I always liked, as I say,  I 
liked adventure stories and ... I was never much into romances and  things like 
that, they didn't sort of appeal to the same extend as -  oh, I used to like 
Georgette Heyer, who was, you know, that was  always - somebody gave me a book 
of that one of hers, and I thought  that was marvellous so I gob - gobbled up 
all those in the Athenaeum that were available, and ... eh, that's probably - 
oh,  no ... look, I, I really couldn't tell you names of things, names of  
authors or types of books.

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       HW:      Oh, we had an awful job to get a radio. Dad didn't  think we 
needed one, and we had a box we put twopence in it until we  could buy one, and 
then we got this radio, but he did give us a, a  notestand gramophone with 
[indistinct], you know, went round on a  disk, and we got some nice records, and 
we had that nice piano when  we were at St. Clair, but it was a school teacher's 
and she asked dad  if he'd buy it, so he bought that tablegram [indistinct] 
which we've  still got, and she was a Mrs Macintyre that taught at St. Clair  
school, and she wanted to give it to a family, the children that she was 
teaching, so that's what we had.
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