Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1880. MR SANSON AND THE INSPECTOR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 98, 3 August 1880, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1880. MR SANSON AND THE INSPECTOR.

From the "Wanganui Herald report of the last Education Board meeting, extracts from which Aye give in an-, other column, it will he seen Mr Sanson has given notice of a motion to dismiss the Inspector. This is, we think, extremely bad generalship on Mr Sanson's part. The recent investigation of the charges against Mr Foulis, and the strong determination that was shown by a large majority of the Board to stick to the Inspector "at any price," should have convinced Mr Sanson that to attempt just now to obtain the dismissal of the Inspector would be merely " kicking against the pricks." We have on previous occasions expressed ourselves against the Inspector, as we agree with the Foxton Committee that the charges brought against him were fully proved. The majority of the Board take an opposite view, and either will not or cannot see that Mr Foulis is unfit for the position he holds. Such being the case, we think Mr Sanson is displaying bad generalship in bringing forward the motion of which he has given notice. It will be most certainly rejected, and the only result will be an angry discussion that can effect no good. The better course would, be to let the matter stand until, by the infusion of new blood, sufficient votes are obtained to relegate Mr Foulis to some sphere where his " accent " will not be so conspicuous, where his knowledge of the " three rivers that flow through Siberia into the White Sea " will not be open to criticism, where gross carelessness in marking children's slates will not be referred to, and where his memory will not be charged with the arduous task of remembering such small matters as whether or not he examined the infant division of a large school. Mr Sanson may depend upon it that the ball has been set rolling, and that before very long the object of his motion will be an accomplished fact. " The longest way round is the shortest cut home," and we think that having given his notice of motion, and placed his views on record, Mr Sanaon's wisest course will be, when the time comes, to withdraw it for the present.