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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 98, 18 September 1878, Page 2

Sijb,—ln, X 9^ r Pta^( ccwrpsponjcfceut's letter* puKtis&ed" a few; 'tedifca:?S§q>» I noticed several remarks'(whic a I think^ for his own reputation and that of the place, had fai better not have been made. I, refer to what he ;said about the Mission SchooL Why should he or any one .persist m trying io throw- blame upon^h&%ust f eea :1? W tnatss.\ahp&V for iiot acting;* entir^l^jr.fCo^tra^ryftD.jthe, conditions of tlie trust.: Tne^' reann6t exceed the powers -'vesT;ed%u tKemi*' If tliey didj.an^ fqHow.the; advioe, oi-.jo.ur correspondent, ithey--Sf6ulcl t-hpn'-most certa.in.ly be blameworthy. The school; estate^ 'b'etorigs'-' exclusively-- <ris> "the Natives, and was set" apart by f;; them-. selves fox the benefit: of their own children* X they do not choose to reap all the benefit they might do from the school, that is, surely their own fault, and not that 01-ihe trustees,-br of the master m charge* as your correspondent insinuates. His remarks appear to be made m an envious greedy, fault-find-ing spirit, which is anything b.u.t creditiable to him, and wJaat-good he could •have hoped to resi^fegini them I canmot imagine. H^sbia^fes'of the Mission as having failed^#sbsuld like him to try and prove that. The church is atillfebt jepd|ifc;]tEere is a: fair average of acongregration; a.nd a, greats numfeer LQftlcQmmupican'iis^an perhaps, >iiy other, (jhurch, Na,tive r. or EuTo'p r ean in-'M teimt^r.^Th^Scliool alsq { 3^j^tillop^n, a.nd Jkasjfe^enirp.mfthe very' time*of ita estahHshment^over thirty years ago; there has beeli'dunng all those years a large average attendance. In fact x there is hardly a Native on this coast from Wellington to Wan.-, ganu", who has not received \vhat edu v cation he possesses m this school, and there are very few who can not at least read arid write m their own language. What Jother self-supporting JTatiT«.:;.

:^(^ool (> i n^ : H 1 * # c o vil * r y has done as much ? ■ j?h^ scj^ooj-^is *m a somewhat low state at Tipreseni^ I^allow^ but there wr© cau^es^jj this ; and jet without blame to ahyfpne eormected with the manageme«t of 3 ili^ school. What school con% ducted oh /& -toluntary principal doea nbjLfehb^arid flbw ? And is the Maori . chaTi&SfeSf less subject .to fluctuating: influences than the Europeans ? The school will doubtless right itself agaia as it has done' before* But even now it isTwfr asbadras he represeritsifet^Thof^^ highest weekly averageta.ttendafice"*for T i .this, year is .28* the lowest .^.iCndjthe v " general da,ily average is 13*- WaVitf r jair or right to represent I^6 the piiblici, v that the present a^tgndance is "one '.*; child^now and then? He also leads ,thj£ j ignorant reader to suppose that therp ia "' a large staff" of teachers ; the truth ia 3 - fi there- is but 6»»fes How the school cbuldrn be kept open with fewer,, perhaps.'. h«ojn will kindly, inform us. r I tmnk it i mps.t ?;! .^ reprehejisibie |gr any. one "writings^rp^/.j, : f essedly inf the interest of the. place, ajadt ;. 3 for tHe- public good,' 'to . niake^ sucE'uni" "'■ founded statements to; the discredit of r any {educational .insfitution,, . how^ve? r "humble,, and ,-i^ s^pu^^Wp^y ; ; alivise- £i cbrresriondjent^ if -hWhas^ittio-liefcter .'advice to pflfertlianj . .'" spmebpdy^shoulil . fdo sonietning^" to : kefep his counserfd^ J^ jhe future. V^.pologiziQfirfpr the^engtb* th|s.lefcter^lain/ r &iq^;' > ; ' \z ■•"■ ' t -'; '■''• - : "^VINBBX* ■