THE SUNDAY LECTURE AT CATLINS.

Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 138, 2 March 1877, Page 5

THE SUNDAY LECTURE AT CATLINS.

TO THK EDITOR. Slß, —ln your issue, of the 23rd instant, Mr Saunders attempts to disprove the assertion I made in your previaus issue. The answer I give Mr Saunders is simply an extract fiom the minutes of the meeting held in the schoolroom on February 5, which reads as follows :—" A letter signed A. C. Saunders, and issued in the Clutha Lbadkr, relative to ppr mission being given to Mr Byers to lecture in the schoolroom, was 'condemned by the Committee, and it was recommended that a letter be written by the Secretary in answer thereto, denying Mr Saunders's statement. Letter written and approved of." The following members were present at the meeting: —Mewsrs J. Esler (President), James M'lntyre, G. Harle, G. Logan, G. Sutherland, and J. Dutton. So that, according to the Foregoing extract, I gave expression to the opinion of the Committee, whose servant I was pro tempore. Mr Saunders says that the secretary of a school committee should be a man of' truth. £ agree with him, and though he has tried to impugn my veracity, I rest assured that the public well know whom to condemn, seeing that there are j six respectable men who say that his statement j was untrue against his own unsuatained asser--1 tion. —l am, &c, J Joseph Sandlant, Secretary School Committee, Cathns River, February 26, 1877.