SCHOOL MATTERS AT MATATURA.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 407, 7 November 1884, Page 2

SCHOOL MATTERS AT MATATURA.

+ TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — As Town Board matters are now so far settled and£erf.ch member installed into (much coveted) office I will, with your permission, speak on education matters, as doubtless you are aware our school has just passed examination, or rather the examination has just been gone through, but with what result we do not yet know, not yet having received the Inspector's report. But dissatisfaction is rife as to the way it \vas(, or rather was wanted to be) conducted ; but as I find there is a meeting of the school committee convened for to-night, which I presume is to attend to the different growls of which I have one. • pending Hhe meeting I will refrain from alluding to it in your valuable columns, and might notjhave done so at all but having a petition presented to me yesterday for signature, calling on paren'.s and guardians of children attending school to sign the same eulogising the head teacher and condemning the Inspector for harsh treatment to the teacher before the children during examination. However, as my education is not sufficiently advanced I will not attempt to decide the matter, but 1 should think the Inspector is sufficiently qualified to judge the'fitnesa or otherwise. Speakinc? for myself 1 have always heard him spoken of by my children as a very courteous and kind, gentleman towards the children. But, referring to the above petition, I beg to say on examining the list of signatures (of which there were seven) three of those who signed were never blessed with children to attend school, iv fact the whole seven represented four children attending school and no more, Therefore, Mr Editor, I will leave you to judge whether they were fit and proper persons to be represented as parents and guardians. Apologising for trespassing on your valuable space, — I am, etc., Long Family. Mataura, 7th November, 1884,