THE MANGAONE SCHOOL.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 157, 30 June 1891, Page 2

THE MANGAONE SCHOOL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THK STAR. ■ Sib, — I must ask your kind permission^9 to say a few words more in reply to Mr ■ J. H. Ashworth. First, I wish to assure ■ him, or any body else that may desire to -I know, that my previous letter in answer; ■ to him was not only signed and for* ■ warded, but was really written by myself, I whatever he may think notwithstaading. - 1 It really did not require the exercise of " I much brains to be able to do so, as I had - I only to say the truth. I am "glad to see^J that he acknowledges his error about^|^H purpose for which the £ for £ ita^^^H 6cribed. As regards who' agitatec^^^^^H building of the residence Mr A^^^^^| says that it was Mr Denshaua. sham may or may not have donc^^^^H do not know anything about this^^^^H as I was not on the committee tha^^^^f and will not write about anything thl^^H do not know. _Then as to the <char^^H against Mr Densham, which Mr J. £n^| Ashworth brings forward in answer to in y^H question, if it occurred at all, that alsof-il must have been before my connection V;l with the. committee, as he says that he .11 brought it before, the committee whenMf^M Fearce was chairman. also ' ! say& that I had all tfie papers handed over to me by the late chairman, and that had J I examined them as I should have done I should have been aware of this one act of neglect of Mr Densham's. . Well, sir, Mr Pearce did hand me oyer the books, also ill vouchers, and a pile of correspondence, which I believe has been accumulating, sincethe^school was first built, but he did '-• not draw my attention to any particular. - part of it, much less to anything of which Mr Ashworth has spoken, if MryAshworfcb, thinks it to be my duty to read all that correspondence I beg to differ from him, and ■ to assure him that I am not quite bo --- simple as that, but I have carefully gone through the minute book (and the same . is open to Mr Ashworth's inspection), but ' can find no mention > made of the serious' ' charge which Mr Ashworth .says he , brought before the committee regarding Mr Densham's neglect of duty. Th© minutes of a meeting held on April 9, - 1890, are the only minutes in which lean: find mention made of anything in conneo- ~ , tion with the cadet or pupil teacher, and _ _ that simply reads as follows : " Letter from Board, stating that a cadet shall not teach more than two hours each day, and the instruction to be given to the same as for pupil teacher." I repeat that I can find no entry- in the minute book relating to any neglect of duty on the part of Mr Densham. /An now, Mr Editor, permit me to thank you for allowing me to place the real facts of the case before- Mr Ashworth, and to assure him that as far as I am concerned this correspondence will stop. — Pain, Ac., KOBERT LINKSHBAR. :