The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1896. WANGANUI EDUCATION BOARD.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 184, 7 February 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1896. WANGANUI EDUCATION BOARD.

More attention has been devoted to the elections to the Wanganui Education Board on the present than on anyprevious occasiou. The reason of this is simply that parents of children and school committees in the country districts have at last awakened to the fact that in many instances they have been neglected and their requests or petitions ignored. *We believe the Board has done its best in the appointment of teachers, but has failed to conciliate the committees. In this connection the Hawera Star justly remarks that in respect of the small things of local administration the Board has frequently shown itself so distrustful of committees, so irritatingly suspicious, that gradually a feeling has grown up that if anything be required it is not sufficient to simply call the Board's attention to it in confidence that it will have immediate and cordial consideration in the spirit of a desire to assist. The committees feel that a course of badgering to be of longer or shorter duration, accordffig to luck, has to be gone through before their wishes will, be met. No doubt the Board, like other public bodies, is vexed by the want of pence, but it does couie somewhat as a shock to learn- that necessaries in the coun try ; are denied , ..naphey can be found for expensive additions to offices jp Wancanui. The experience of the

FeiJding and other committees in the adjacent school districts is well depicted in this extract, and for that reason alone we strongly recommend -, those with whom the power lies to return Mr F. Y. Lethbndge as a member of the Board. He has had an experience in the control oi local bodies and the administration of their affairs second to few men in the col- 1 ony, while as a member of the local I school committee he has loyally served the best interests of the children in promoting the cause of their education.