LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 130, 26 February 1919, Page 6

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

MR. COMBS. AMHDUCATION • Sir,—ln connection with recent correspondence in your columns iinder the above heading, the Management Committee of the Masterton branch of tho N.Z.8.1. ■unanimously passed the following: motion at a meeting on Saturday ■last:—: ■ ■■'.■ ■ ' ,"■'"'' '■ '■ ' ■ ''; That the'committee of the Master.','ton branch.of the N.Z.E.I. wishes to ~place .on/iecord.the valuable services rendered to education throughout the by Mi , . F.'Li Combs, M.A.;. r that this committee is of the opinion that Mr.' Combs has very ably repreeented this branch as delegate to the . annual .conference upon five occasions, and that jthe "reported deliberations .- ;of '" these conferences indicate Mr. ' ■'!C6mbs.as..initiating'arid supporting ..'.measures of. the; greatest importance ■ to educational reform; that this com- ■ mittee dissents from tho comments = upon Mr. Combs as delegate expreseed..by, the. secretary .of the N.Z.E.I. ;'in; The Dominion of Saturday, Feb--rnaiy 8, aid'enters a protest against ■the the N.Z.E.I. attacking a member in the public Press. ■'■■'-■ ■ ■• ■•■• ;: ' -I am, etc., OLIVB R. SUTHERLAND, Secretary Masterton Branch N.Z.E.I. February 22, 1919.