The Fate of Headmaster.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 18 March 1890, Page 2

The Fate of Headmaster.

; lua late numbrr of the Qtwry I Daily Times, *• Civis " in Passing Noies, says :— The fa^e of 27 headmaster in Seven New Zealand High

Schools, as set fovfch in the following " bi'l of immortality," reprinted f; om a 1 New Zealand paper by the Pa I Ma.! Ga%tittf>£ti forrospOndeut tLsrres me to *■ publish — probably by way of helping High School teachers to' spend, a meriy Ohristmaa and thorotigmy' emoy their holidays': — 1. Drowned 15. Dismissed, 2. Driven away IC. dismissed, 8. Worried to death 17^ Dismissed, 4. Badgeredintore-18. Dismissed signing 19. Die"d*'of 5. In lunatic asylnra chloral. G. Survives - 20. Dismissed. 7. Broken in health 23 . Died in a B, Survives lunatic psylum, 9. Driven away 22. Survives. 10. Survives .23. Dismissed, 11. Dismissed 24. Dismi&fd. 12. D'smissed 25. Sn-vivas 13. Suw.'vs . .br.t*fc'----ely 14:. Din •;..:issod bttifcod. 2G. Lisinissorl 27. Died. The Pall Mall remarks on this list that it is " sufficiently tragical and alarming set of statistics." For my part, I don't read it that way at all. There is not a siugle case of rolnntaiy resignation observe. A New Zealand headmaster never retires except at the point of the bayonet or in the course of nature. What is the 1 inference! 1 This, I shoujd. .saythat a New ZWainel feead master has a particularly good thing &## sticks* to it wiih singulvr tenacicy, Mmkyou I stop short of affirming ttiatf such is the fact ; lin reply point out that it is legitimate inference from this " tragical and alarming set <>i statistics. ■ ■•« In., ffre Pall Mall's view a New Zealand head master's engagement like .that of a Eoinau Emperor, is usually terminated by as3asiaation. But, according to the showing of his own figuivs, it isnevei* terminated by the will ef the head master himself. So the billet can't be such a bad one after a'l.