THE MANGAPAPA SCHOOL.
The residents of Mangapapa school district will probably feel exhilarated at the .telegram from the Premier which is published in this morning’s issue. After two years’ of fruitless agitation for justice, two years’ of evasive replies from the government and half promises that are worse than straight-out refusals tho scandalous state of affairs which exists at Mangapapa school has at last received official recognition as an “urgent case.” It is true that the additional words “is now receiving attention,” sound suspiciously like the stereotyped “under consideration” with which the Government officials plausibly but firmly turn down scores of applications every day before pigeon-hol-ing the demands, but all the same we fancy something definite is likely to eventuate in the present instance. As we pointed out at the time of tho indignation meeting, there is a point beyond which it is not safe even for a Government to provoke a section of the community, and Sir Joseph Ward appears to have recognised that that, stage lias been reached in the case of the Mangapapa school.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2089, 15 January 1908, Page 2
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177THE MANGAPAPA SCHOOL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2089, 15 January 1908, Page 2
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