A REPUDIATION.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 424, 13 August 1880, Page 3

A REPUDIATION.

To tl\£ Editor. ofM^'AMrWMaxl'J '• 'Sir,—The information contained in a local of yours* ©f "last week anont the i refusal of school keyto congregation at! Barry's «Ba.y, j i,sujr]jrjft9fll ft. (good .fnariy/of\ your •..,It**aUso ; 'garbled.! ,' ' "Tho facts are these :—Theito'mirtitteb'of : ", the above district .ysc|ip.9l >. com« time early in June'saw"ari advertisement in jftuc

paper,-^^ held in their hay- ; Ing been asked or granted. This meeting •wasjheld On %c evinirig, arid the committee mej, jthe,(•following]"week, ahd passed a resolution., thatr'fs; thes '"haHiiot been consulted' in .the, ,*saatter >of permission, it was time steps jyejte taken to show that the use pf public i buydings ( cpuld> not be taken dr"granted 'witjiout some wrjtteii understanding. "' ! " '"' [ ' ' '■' t ;\, '' By inadvertence, ' thefr Clerk's letter •offering terms for use of sdhool room to -the Church Committee was left unanswered, hence*-the "master of the-school •dared not Jiiainstructions} and theIcey v/fld- reluserL/aB the 'body-requesting~ tho key had noratrthorisafion to receive it. Your informant was" wrong 'in "fltasng4ho •clergyman „ came to the .school-tfbonf'i !the master stoppe'd;h*rri ,on the high/road, and informed Jpstrnctidrjs given ■him. •opportuni rthe * congregation assembling, by no : ant Jg..^ r . quid nu'ricisih* : -w-^wrngerorTS"*wlion"minute books record. "*"Tf~furtl*.er details are a-equired .irfghtr-ivisj., that the refusing .'the,/ key j'beoause ""lliey. thought their posifiou as ,a.i.psblio body slighted, 1 when their business letters-remained 'traanreworedfora mon.thVsuch details -.will be faithfully rendered,by -yours 1 obediently, > Barry's Bay, <ff ( ( y/THjE, CLERK..' August-lOt'n'/iS&ftj, 0 -j j 4 »rf •}