CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2113, 10 April 1920, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor.) Sir. —I notice a paragraph in your report of the School Committee meeting, in which the headmaster makes a complaint about jin inspection of the “’German piano.” lie slates that the piano was tampered with. What a pity! f hasten to add that I was one of the culprits, as I desired to examine the internals of “Oscar Kohler's” instrument, which was made in Berlin. Here we have a complete somersault on the par! of the hcadimisicr, jis he now evinces a loving disposition towards the piano now in the school, which (mils to mind his statement that the stuff would refuse to use a piano of German origin. Have (hey yet done so? Really, the headmaster is most amusing, were it not for the fa cl that he makes a statement which is contrary to the truth, when he says class work was disturbed, and in this connection 1 prefer the courteous assurance of the teacher that such would not he the ca.-c. As for the Board, well I should think they must he about fed up with pianos, after (heir hostile altitude in the first place jind now to find out (hey have subsidised a German piano. As for trespassing in the school, and its .‘Blairs, well, the Board cliainimn lias set a precedent, so it’s good enough for me, ticsides, we did not give any !ec(uret-|. les, thereby disturbing the work of the school. If the parly behind (he gnu think they are going to reap any benefits in the way of votes they v, d lie mistaken, jind any advantage that they can reap hy such pinpricking tactics they can have. For myself and others who can see beyond the length of our nose, we prefer to light tin* various urn iters (•lean and above hoard, not per medium of letters to the Board, which is now I lie laughing stock of the country. If the letter had been one of sympathy I could have overlooked it, hut jis it's a challenge 1 (j'ke it up. —Your.-, etc., E. (I, MARTIN.