SCHOOL CONCERT FUNDS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), 22 December 1883, Page 4

SCHOOL CONCERT FUNDS.

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Snt,—lt is a pity when men who profess to have the interests of the public at heart let their little prejudices overmaster their judgment. It needs little penetration to see that "A Pareuts's" letter in your last night's issue was simply tho result of hostility to tho present .system of education , he is evidently one of those old fossils, now happily almost extinct, for whom the education of the people has few charms. I would not have troubled you or you readers with this letter had it not been that your paragraph of Thursday Kind "Parent's" letter of yesterday both imply that the committee has misappropriated the funds raised by the lato concert. Tho facts of tho case aro these. A fortnight before the concert tho head master informed tho committee the number of prizes required, with the value of each, and recommended that they be purchased at onco, which was done. Now, it could not possibly be known then what the concert would realize, and therefore the exact sum could not possibly be spent in the purchase of prizes. It wa.s afterwards found tliut when all demands had been met there was a balance of some £'J, which the head master recommended should be spent. in purchasing books to form tho nucleus of a school library. This recommendation w,is likewise confirmed by the committee. There can bo no doubt that the primary object of the concert was the purchase of school prizes," but after that has been accomplished it is surely within the province of tho committee to say how any small balance that may remain shall bo disposed of. —lain, etc., Tiios. Laws.

Decembei-21, 1883.