26 JUNE 1926, Page 10

SPECTABILIA

THE Open Air School League of New Zealand, of 145 Breezes Road, Christchurch, New Zealand, sends me a copy of the League's publication The Open Air Life. Climatically there is not a great difference between the South Island of New Zealand and Great Britain and there should be plenty of scope in this country for the founding of a similar movement. At the annual general meeting of the British Medical Association, 1923, the doctors of New Zealand thus expressed themselves :—" That the educational authorities be urged to take into consideration the desirability of open-air schools when framing their school-building proposals in the future."