THE SOCIAL GATHERING AT ASHTON.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1505, 12 March 1887, Page 3

THE SOCIAL GATHERING AT ASHTON.

TO THE EDITOB.

StE,— Allow me to refer to a report of the above whiob appeared m one of your Ute Issues, and to state that bo t\v ts the parents of ohildren attending the school were jjoncerned, a considerable number of them never knew tf such a Meeting nntll It »ppeared m your pape>\ It ia • matter of Indifference to mp, or J expect to any of the Committee, if one or two enthusiasts get np an address for presentation, bub when the expression 1b nted that the removal of the late maatnr was " a calamity," then it ia very oaaly leen that it Is an Indirect way of trying to sneer at the aotion, not only of tho Committee but of the Poard it Education. The fact is, Mr Bramley, wes tried en fits merits as a master, and w*9 found wanting; tbe Board very judiciously like' the Committee, consider jd hia removal for the waltare of tho school imperative necessity, and I will lo&ve yonr reidera to jadgo wherein oorors th* calami j Id- nt know/Se wio was your npeoial reporter on this eventful ocoiaiou, bat I am afraid he drew considerably on his imagii ation. The fact that a fow jndiv d a a should- surreptitiously take pones-lon^of a public school and oouatitute themselves into s> social gathering is faroloal indeed. It, howafjr, served a purpose, bat cot, I hope, without bjing ihown ap m its true light. Yours etc. G. Gilmotjr, Chairman, Aahton School. [The report In question was supplied 'on 1 by a resident m the district. — J r> ]