Awahuri School Committee

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 147, 12 July 1888, Page 3

Awahur i School Committee

TO THE EDITOR OF THK STAR. Sir, — Your correspondent, while acknowledging the high compliment paid to hie retiring disposition by *' GKK..L.," caanot but feel that he has been fulsomly flattered at the expense of " G.lt.L.'s" colleagues, and that the comtnitteeuien are not all fools, nor did tLey all " rush in" to elect themselves, on the ground that the retiring committee was incompetent. Neither is your correspondent as yet a fully fledged angel (although eince the letter of " GkR.L." he has a pricking sensation about the shoulder blades, doublessly caused by the leathers sprouting), but he certainly does fear to tread in " G.R.L.'s" footsteps. Your correspondent confesses to the gross ignorance of which he is accused respecting the duties of school committees as taught by the Awahun chairman. May it continue so. Doubtless " G.R.L." feels acutely the painful evidence he speaks of as the great probability is that the humbler committeemen will object to pay up for what they (some at least) consider as his blunder. As it is pretty generally known that the Awahuri School Committeemea were self-elected, and did not require the help of their fellowmen on that occasion, the fact that your correspondent did not "rush in" and elect himself is . commendable rather than otherwise on the score of modesty. Your correspondent deeply regrets that "G.R.L." should find fault with his style of language, and pleads the excuse that he is but an *' unlettered muse" who has not ac quired those scholastic attainments that "G.R.L." possesses, and which has won for him such world wide renown, and whose caco'eihes scrihendi joxlt correspondent hears, has been so highly appreciated by some lady, or ladies, that they have presented him with a Primer as a tribute to ability, and a graceful offering at the shrine of learning, while your correspondent is content to humbly echo th© words •of Festus to Paul, " Much learning hath made thee mad," believing while he does so that "G.R.L." is more worthy of that expression than St. Paul was. — I am, &c, A CoBKESPONDEffT.