A GARBLED REPORT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 60, 13 February 1877, Page 2

A GARBLED REPORT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE AKAROA MAIL.

Sir, —In your report of a meeting held in Le Bon's Bay last week, " your own correspondent" says, that there was a large attendance, but he forgets to say what caused that large attendance. We were there for two reasons : first to prevent the election of a member of committee, who would be a mere tool in the hands of the present chairman, and also to protest against the action of the committee against the master, arid do what we can to thwart them. We have done this in the master's absence, and this fact itself will show the respect we have for the master, and also our low estimate of the committee. To show how things are worked here, I may mention that on the evening in question, when a large number of us appeared on the ground, one of the committee

asked a ratepayer what we all wanted there, which plainly shows that they only wanted somebody to help their premenitated dismissal of the master. As to the meeting being very orderly, I can only say, that if gross personalities make an orderly meeting, then it was one. *» I am &c, RATEPAYER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE AKAROA MAIL. Sir, —Taking up your paper the other day by chance, I saw that at a meeting of the School Committee a gentleman said he did not consider it fair that Mr. Nicholls should take the upper classes that Miss Thomas had conducted so well during last term, and give her lower ones. Now Iwant to know : first, is this gentleman a schoolmaster, has he been one, or is he in training for one, that he interferes with a gentleman who has spent the greater part of his life in tuition and school management; secondly, is the Committee to interfere with the master of a school, unless he either mismanages it, or misconducts himself, and thirdly, would this gentleman, if he were the head of a school himself take the lower classes whilst his under teacher took the higher ones. I dont wish to say Miss ThcSnas is not a good teacher, but I am putting the case from an outside point of view of what is right. In concluding let me say that I think had Mr. Noonan been a sqhool master he would not have maintained what he did. I am &c, A.C.B.S.