HAMILTON.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 396, 14 October 1876, Page 3

HAMILTON.

(To the Editor oj f.'/ie M oust Ida Cfbontcob.) Sie,—Permit me, through the medium of your columns, to express my sympathy' to the Hamilton School Committee. lam not one of the Committee, but a lover of fair play. A public meeting was held in the Temperance Hall on the evening of the 51 hj, for the express purpose of calling the Hamilton portion of the School Com'mittee to resign ; also, to stop the removal of the master's residence to Sowburn. The Chairman said the object of the meeting was to cull upon the said Committee to resign, as they failed in doing <heir duty Io tho public, in voting for the removal of the teacher's residence, aud that the said Committee were the ones who wanted the removal, and not the Sowburn portion. The Chairman erroneoueiy said that the house was public property/being subscribed for by the public here. A deputation was formed to wait on the Sowburn portion of the Committee. No notice was to bo taken of the Hamilton portion, from the above-mentioned facts, as stated by the Chainnan. I maintain that the Committee have not failed iu any form in their arduous duties ; neither did they want tho removal of the said residence. The agitation first arose with the residents at the Hut, as meniioned in a letter in one of your issues some time ago from a resident there. The Sowburn section thought that, if the house was to be removed, and rather that it should be erected in a lonely gully, Sowburn was the fittest place, and gave their sanction to its removal. I should like to know what right they have to call upon the Committee to resign. Not one of the gentlemen in the room that evening attends the annual meetings, nor contributes, to the support of the school. The worthy Chairman nor his colleagues have never taken an interest in education; yet we see them mustering, from twelve to seventy (to use the words of Shakespeare), ready to censure those gentlemen, to whom they are greatly indebted for their unceasing labors. I think it would have been more creditable for them to return thanks to the Committee, rather than using their trumpets. But wisdom is justified of her children. I hope the collector and treasurer will see what metal is in their trumpets next year. But for the influence of a gentJeman who has been most unsparing in his efforts in the interests of education for Hamilton and Sowburn the last annual meeting would have been a failure. I also maintain that the residence was not built by public subscription, but by a grant from the Education Board. I trust that the Committee, who have toiled so faithfully for so many years for the good of both places, will still hold on to the end of their term, and that it will treat the deputation as it ought to be treated.—l am, &c, J. S. Stowe. « __