THE TAONUI SCHOOL.

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 44, 2 June 1880, Page 3

THE TAONUI SCHOOL.

IO THK EDITOR. Sis,— At a meeting of the Taonui PSchppl-! Committee held iasfc r mght, at which all th* members were present, lettees of expldhaUonfToia. the Board-t sent to<iaefA;memberof the Comrnittee—:-7*e-.-the;Appointment of- teachers, -wore discussed,, and the^follqwing Resolution was Carried : ivfth ; btit r bite dissentient (Mr. Moffatt) :^i if ' ' ' ■" That the,.Tfl[6hu_i School Committee ,cannot enter Caln^ tie jex plan ation off e red by'i'ke Board 're the appoiiitnient of a teacher, respectfully insists on its : right to J be ; cdnsulted : before, and not after, an appointment is made, and therefore on principle it mus t refuse to confirm the a'ppoihtment of Mr. Slipf per;' ; 'tKe Committee 'also think the Board : ongh* not to have eonsideivsd the* memorial said to be signed by ten householders of the disMct, until such memorial; had 1 been referred to the Committee, for Terificatipn." , •> ■ • ; The J 4th Clause of the. Education; Act says, " that no* appointment, suspension^ ■or dismissal shall take place until the Go < mmittee J has been first consulted." j The Taonui Committee was not cohsultedtby-' the^^Board before it' appointed Mr. Sli pper ; that committees should be .first consulted is a most important mallei 1 , and'wortlrcdritending for, as it affords, an opportunity to make enquir.ies as ;to the, character pf those to whom this care of the children" of the district are; tp.be' entrusted.—^l - : aiß, &c, . : .:_-^j,l ; v - , James Seeum/AN. Chairman Taonui School Committee. ; ' SUverley, Taonui, June Ist, 1880.