TOWN SCHOOLS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 297, 17 December 1870, Page 4

TOWN SCHOOLS.

To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail. Sir — Please can you tell me why the Superintendent did not give me my prize this year ? I was looking forward io leceiving it from him because he pave me one last year, and T thought "he will recollect me and think what a good little girl I am to get one two years ruuuing " — I whs so disappointed not to see the short gentleman with the good-natured face, he looked so kind at me when he gave me ray book last Christmas. When I got home I asked my father who the gentleman was from whom I got my prize (lie was not at the Hall so I had to describe him) aud when I had done so he at once said Oh ! that is Mr. Sliephard ! he also added to my mother "I cannot understand why he filled the place which Superintendents have always occupied for the last fifteen years : the pareuts that I have spoken to about it did not like it at all, they say it is a much greater honor for their children to receive their prizes from the Head of the Province than it is from the hands of one of the Provincial Government Officials, and then Mr. Shepbard is almost a stranger amongst us, I know that he comes from Wakefield, and that is about all that I do know of him.' Mother says I must'nt write any more or you wont put it in your paper, so I am Yours respectfully ABC.