THE SCHOOL PRIZE DISTRIBUTION.
[to the editor,] Sir— Will you be good enough A® correct the errors you have made in*reporting what I Said at the prize distribution on Friday evening] Perhaps the noise made by the rain on the roof led you to misapprehend the tenor of my observations ; otherwise I cannot understand how you could have so strangely misconceived my remarks. I said nothing whatever about clergy or clergymen I never mentioned the words, from first to last; nor any words referring to ministers, good, bad, or indifferent. What I did say was that there were “persona”, who desired to introduce class distinction ihto State
Schools, and these persons I characterised as shoddy gentlemen—shabby genteel people aristocrats. I 1 referring to' at the time, Very well, and I was irot referring to any or thinking of clergymen in Connection frith ; the subject* at all—Yours, 11. Richardson Rae. March 13, 1881% [We adtoit and regret the error. Tile word He knew of some clergymen of shabby genteel respectability/' as reported in Mr Rae’s speech in our last issue, should have read “ lie knew tof certain persons of shabby genteel respectability. s’—Eb. 5 ’ —Eb. K.T.]
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Kumara Times, Issue 1388, 14 March 1881, Page 2
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195THE SCHOOL PRIZE DISTRIBUTION. Kumara Times, Issue 1388, 14 March 1881, Page 2
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