The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1886. THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1699, 4 May 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1886. THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

♦ — We can but regret the Rev* A. M. Wright's determination to appeal against the legality of the recent election of a school committee at the meeting of householders. Will Mr Wuight say what good purpose he hopes to achieve by such procedure? And does it not strike him that he has stultified himsejf by accepting his own election ~a% legal, and acting as secretary to a committee which he maintains has been illegally elected ? We believe Mr Wright's contention is that he is appealing as a householder. Well, all we can say is that his action is likely to stir up bitterness of feeling, which he, as a clergyman, should be the last person to do. He maintains that the committee, as at present constituted, is unworkable. How does he know ? In our opinion he is going the right way to work to intensify and perpetuate any existing feeling, and to ultimately bring the committee into an unworkable state. Mr Wright says m effect, " It is impossible for the Committee as at present constituted to work together; harmoniously." When did he make this discovery ? Before or after he accepted the post of Secretary, and acted m, that capacity ? We consider Mr Wright's : action a most l unwarrantable and undeserved reflection on every member of the present Committee, and equally so on the meeting of householders. Very probably the Board will reply: — "We do not see any sufficient reason to interfere." What will Mr Wright do then? Will he resume his seat on the Committee, and his position as Secretary, and expect things to work smoothly m future? He may be acting according to his judgment; but we venture to affirm that public opinion will not endorse his action, from which no practical benefit can possibly result that we can conceive, but entirely the reverse. We dare predict thatMr Wright will ultimately sincerely regret the step he has taken, and and m the long run will admit, that his action was a grave indiscretion .'which can scarcely fail to bring about very undesirable results. The almost inevitable' effect will be one that all right-thinking persons must sincerely deprecate, as calculated to interfere with the harmony and unanimity that should attach themselves to any body entrusted with school management, the absence of which attributes must seriously detract from its usefulness and efficiency.