John Arnold<p>_The Evening Post_, 16 April 1925:<br> WOMEN IN <br> PRINT.<br>…<br> Few people could have failed to notice the cheerfulness, not to say joviality of the youngsters as they made their way in crowds to the schools yesterday after the fours months of unbroken holiday.… “What about going back to school?” was the question asked of a group making their way to a school at <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Kelburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kelburn</span></a>. “It’s all right” came as a chorus, and later some young ones who go to school by ferry boat quite declined to wait till a later boat, preferring to get over early in the hope of having some time on the beach—a thing which they had much missed.… the parents were quite as cheerful… considering that all gatherings at seaside, sports, entertainments, and churches were barred. It has been necessary; but it is to be hoped that it will be quite a singular experience…, and that the terrible illness—or any other of epidemic proportions—will not visit these shores again. Medical science and research as they progress should find precautionary measures, and if immediate precautions are taken to isolate the little country so far as epidemical scourges are concerned, it is to be hoped that the experience may never be repeated.…<br><a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250416.2.85" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news</span><span class="invisible">papers/EP19250416.2.85</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PapersPast</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Epidemics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Epidemics</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Polio</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Schools</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Wellington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wellington</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a></p>