THE CAPTAIN AND THE PRIVATE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 91, 12 November 1879, Page 2

THE CAPTAIN AND THE PRIVATE.

' ■ "In evpvv a.are nnd clime we nee, Two of a trade can ne'er a gree." So sang Giiv, the author- 1 of the "Begears' Optra,"; m his well-known '"Fable*." more than two-h undred yenrs ago, and. men and manners "do not ' seem to have: matftfliallv charged' m the ; two .centuries which have since intervened.;.; It ..is well-/ known that MjV Hulke, the .energetic and ■ ind*frttio.ible master m charge' of the State school nt Foxton liß9/{ob iftflnijts past denounced the y iniquitous practice of mixing the two sexes, rind made urgent, appears to the Education Board to separate the male < and female pupils. The -honest sincerity of his motives cannot, for a moment be qneslioned when it isjstnfed that >ivere. the step suggested by Mr. Hulke acted .upon, his honorarium would he considerably diminished, and consequently the recommendation was entitled; to seripuV consideration. "Being a layman, ray opinion is only entitled to carry unprofessional weight ; but certainly it does appenr to me that the indisoriminnte mixing of th* sexes is open to very strong oppos>i»ion, or even ailottSng , the tojiching of pirls of raathre agiei to male" instructors. Thie is on ft of the principal reasons urged by Mri Hnlke for the -change proposed by hiui, for us lie points out, that should a girl of fifteen .or, sixteen unruly of stnbhdrh-r^iis ia often the caserne is perfectly helpless m the matter of nunislirnenfe, The "application iir Vupjjor' of Mr. Hulke's Tecommendation came before the Wanganui Efliicatjori Board on last Wedne^dav, when Mr. Foulis, the In-.'.spect-nr of the Pistrictj expressea a decided . opinion against the sep:irijtion of • the sex^e m any wh'qbl. stnting that exjieriehcp had taught him- that the co-edm-ation of the sexes was • more Rdvantagpouc than separa-. !tjo.n. /Well, Mr. Inspector Fouliß is. a prpI Sessional, 'so to speak, and his dictum ' ought to carry wtighE with it, yet I am of opinion that...nine ■'c/fit / of, every- ten wfll.endpvse the I the nWemnce of hia Bi)bordinate. . Jt is a bad, rule which wijl not worik both wave and if it be" trne that " Hanrisoine' is, as hands 01 ?' 6 d°es," it must be allowed fcliat 'f Fbui ie he, as Pouits does.'!