Original Correspondence.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 663, 21 November 1882, Page 2

Original Correspondence.

LITTLE AKALOA SCHOOL.

To the Editor.

Sir, —If the committee of this school really exists, can you. inform the parents of the children here if they have been and are asleep or awake ? My reason for asking this question is as follows .'—Nearly four months ago the late master sent in his resignation, and the school has been closed since the last day of October. Surely four months is a sufficiently long time in which to enable the committee to find a successor to Mr Cox. I see the committee are again advertising for a master, applications to be in by the 23rd inst. Supposing that at or near that date a master is elected, the result of the delay will be that our children will be absent from school for at least another month. At the time when the new master takes charge, the Christmas holidays will begin, and allowing that these last only a fortnight, we shall not be able to send our children to school until the middle of January at the earliest. This statement means in so many plain words, that from the end of October till nearly the end of January our school is closed and our children deprived of the means of education. A very nicely managed piece of business truly ! I hope the householders, when electing a new committee will not forget these facts.—Yours, etc.,

A PARENT,