THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1287, 23 June 1884, Page 2

THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE

TO THE CiDITOH. Sir, —Allow me to say a few words on the question that is at present engaging the attention of the readers of your paper, viz., “ the suppressed school report.” The public has for the past few days been treated to an amount of correspondence in reference to the same, and it appears to me that the Chairman of the Committee has fallen in for the lion’s share of the abuse; one would think “ that has followed the correspondence,” that (x. H. St. Hill is everything that is bad, if we are to be guided by what has fallen from several of your correspondents. But I think it will take a deal more paper and ink oefore such people as "Fair Play” and “Householder” can alter the good opinion which the majority of the housaholders entertain of Mr G. H. St. Hill. But, Sir, to come to the point. I have always been under the impression that the duty of a Chairman was to carry out the inatruo tions of a Committee, which, I believe, in the present case has been done. lam a'so informed, and on good authority, that it was not the Chairman’s wish that the report should be suppressed, but that he was overruled by the Committee. Nol that the Committee had any selfish motive, but simply to further the interest of the party the report was about. Then, Sit, if such is the case, which I have every reason to believe, whore io the Chairman to blame 1 He first wished the report published, he was overruled by the Committee, and he only carried out the wish of the majority, “So much for serving the public no pay and plenty of abuse.

1 take it, Sir, that the present Committee are true represntatives of the house ; holders, and it ill becomes such parties as “ Fair Play ” and “ Householder ” to endeavor to misrepresent the Committee’s action. In conclusion, I must say that it apnears to me that there are in Ashburton a few, and only a few, who would like to see Mr St. Hill put out of public life, but so long as he does his duty future as has done in the past, his friends will rally round him and show his opponents that they appreciate his actions. By inserting this in your paper you will not only oblige myself but the majority of the public of Ashburton,—lam, etc., 8.1.

Ashburton, June 23, 1884.