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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 94, 4 September 1878, Page 2

The ;maniier, m. which : the r^ariganu^ Education Board manage school matters " at this end of .the: distriot,, is jvery far r f rbni, satis fa tory. . In a previous issue 1 [we notified thatthe JPoxfcon SchoqlCpiiamittee! had prepare"(3L. piansjf or the erection of^a^^optfi^ girls, Jbo asifco kfeep '' the sexes .ejntirely, separate. It ! must be admitteci.^that tjiis wa^; a ihos.t prudent ■ s andTnecessary s tep,^ one which the master^Mr Hui»kb, had u lohg aha streiiuously adyocated,r and ,to ; which he was rs6 n wedded tliat he waßprepareii dergba.jloss of g salary- rather than have, the children mixed. But his laudable intentions aappearr r "doomed to! "be'; fr,us•trated through the dorainant spirit 1 Mmg at he^d-quarfce'rs. „Th©.'pl^ I wardejd' vto ■rWapgahui -for: apdep'tanbe, iandltheiqlldwiing,4s ; .'tHe .ciirt ,a^d cjiarsacteristio reply «Huph"-w|is yoiiehsaifed >by the Board's official :-?-," [l rcturh ybur 'plans [ hy. this, dayfs mail, .arid uay^i.to' ;request that, .the modify the^onginai plan, so ; as^iiot to Re'^ajr^te '*;he schopl, and v alßOr to k^ep wjthin tho voted ; AAv K. Bbo^e^ Tlie;highand mighty BiiqwNE; does .not deign^lto mention whoTheTs, oVby whose autjionty he is laeting, but then AjIJL- is writing to Foxton from the sublimity of the Wanganui Education 7 tffficepand curtliress [naturally r , supersedes courtesy. J?oxton, however, c ik riot r the^rily plair'e which is to ho attracted by tho loadjStone of Wanganui*#Cgreatne^s. Pormerly it; was3the ( : customrwhen^.eafaminar 1 tions jwere to be; held jFof pujpilah^ other' I claßs|teatchers that tfie operation .should Ibe performed m '.th^^county ; tQwn ; for instance, examipa^ous were held "m the, town j ol^Wanganuii as£f he; i^hief ! ibwn'' ( of-4he county of "that name ;" m Mar toiT," 1 f o^ Bjangitikei j £pd $$0% ; ton;,: fprr . Mana* watu. All this, however, is how|tobe altered, and to add: lustre ;to the new dignity acquired ty the first-nanied town the schoolmasters and allthe candidates i^reto be dragged from one extremity pf the Coast' tfr the other,;' and-put t6' ! the expense and inconvenience I>f two or * three days' detention m Wanganui. ForMerely to gratify that craving for centralisation with which the people hlivej been seiae.dv j By' th'e^ ridiculous course proposed; half the candidatesin ,the, ..out-lying districts will prefer re tire altogether; rather ( than incur the by the tripy and the schools" will have to remairi*closed • during the masters' ab-s seno6. We t nbtic fc #Hhat'!MriSD;i,kßi.6fFostpn, has taken a most- determined againsttthixridipnlonsjnnovatipn, , :and it is to. be hoped that not i>nlyl wSI hjsowjni; b^tjev^eryj qt|ier 6ommittee.jn( the Manawatu, back hin£ up' m" his efforts to set his foot uponjhis .brazen attempt . toestablish a.system of centrali'satioh. '*^lmerstoin;; we understand,' jitas prepared ' to Ifeiit, tip ; fi^e, 1 eiahdidates for^ pupil^^Jteachersliip,, buifc great >tumblin|f-bloek ? tHrowh f ii» their' way,; it wmore ; thaln' possible ih'e ipwn' j mayl hd^uiirfepresen^ea^ at' the . coming >xjimina^ons:; .Indeed;' by' the :: step the'Wanganui^Board «has taken; it ! has riot only acted with gross injustice* I but we have an idea- it] is 1 m direct contravention of the Act. ,