NASEBY SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 32, 10 September 1869, Page 3

NASEBY SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

(To the Editor of the Mount Ida. Cheoutcle.) Sir, —Through the medium of your journal I trust you will allow me space to recur to an incident of the utmost importance that has occurred in this generally speaking quiet locality—l refer to the, attempted ousting of the present dominie (respected, I fully believe amongst the majority of us). . The manner of action taken by a clique of the School Committee is one that bears upon the face of it an impress at once discreditable to the originators of the course pursued, while it is equally unjust to the party traduced. I allude to those few who, in a most egotistical and dictatorial manner, took upon themselves to judge (Keaven alone knows wherein their ..capabilities of judgment lie) of the fitness of the present schoolmaster to retain his appointment. This action taken seems to have been arrived at at a time when really only those who possess talent and intellectual powers were absent. This alone looks, to say the least of it, suspicious, and displays exceedingly bad taste in hurrying forward a matter of vital importance to the community at large without consulting those of. their colleagues, who were in a position, both by their education and impartial justness, to form a correct idea as to whether the present teacher of the ISTaseby District School were a fit and proper person to occupy the position he does. 1, for one, am of opinion that he does ; but, notwithstanding that, I say in all fairness, let the matter have free ventilation, and justice be done to him; if he is unfit let his discharge be given ; but, if the trumpery charges that have been raked up against him, and which I am of opinion are without the slightest foundation, then I say let public opinion decide at once that they will not allow a splenetic few to cast forth their venom upon the head of a just and .upright mail, whose only fault, is that his straightforward ways do not agree with their vitiated tastes.—l am, sir, yours &c., Impartiality. iSaseby, Sept. 8, 1869.