LOCAL COMMITTEE MEETING.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 147, 19 June 1873, Page 2

LOCAL COMMITTEE MEETING.

To the Editor of the J^blson Evening Mail. ! -SiRj — Your correspondent "Hi-Av-L." ; in your yesterdß^iS]t]|?jQo,|c|bßsg§§i,njeij?itb; | packing the meeting fo|_ the election fpji 1 rnemb^ray'ojf >^the jLjjcal ACpmmtytee of ; Education last Saturday. I do not think j your corr^pogid^nt^ y^jiUjI i^. knowingly I publish an uptn^ie statement, bu#|he state- ■! metftia jßertaibly untrue, _and Ijcan only | suppose |hat,sonie ..person, q must have drawn ta^ei^'' "on" ybW 1 correspondent's '. qr,e4uUty>, ;i?; pf i; {packing ij the meeting) never /entered my mind.; ;I may I have riflduedd l two -""6t three persons -' ; to j attend the s; rne i etfng i , f tJutPthis 1 was, l believe, ' theHinirti^fj ra y influence on the atten- '■ dSn'ce, and I am f; sufe ; ihkfr ft"did ; nbt ■ fall short of even this. Perhaps " H.A.L." did r as^fetfcK'aß7th'|§fh^ra¥eff^a^^ lis 'blamewdrihy' fo l r* doing so. I musti ■ however," admit that the place for the ; n\efeUn^iwalf'"tbleral)ly- full,^anc[ that -we were packed^riStty) closely/- 1 Your readers will-probably agree with , in'e; that«;he>l«r^er ; than usual, ; tmh^rimk^meeiiUg^nk at HW coun^ ; ' elections, was caused by the late, discussions i m the Provincial Council on prohibiting the reading „of. f ,t^e., ( scriptures in the ■ echpol.s^ ( J^ f §hg.pjia,rd^ .whpi brqught.lhe Bill Kaving'this.iO.^ect;. .Blfojtie the Council, was care/uxititpi^^pjai/iuthat Jie didjsp as the i mouthpiece of the—Central Board of Education, and^wilUXfttfeer .members who a d J?^cat%d T |hjs s nra^i<}al JJ piiange., Jt iiiii f :ihe arcdinance the opinibn^can'd wishes of the Gentral Board evidently had great weight. &X& Ttlte iß^tj^TdMinolcdesA^ ./thJK cbrange; In soma^istric^ts w.ere^-almpst^unani- , mouslyVgainsT ifc/Vnd^the Board of Education, which was assumed to, be n the 1 espopeht, of, 7 |^e if pifhes, .pl/liije-.peopj.e, wj|s cleanlyiin antagonism to their wishesii; -0 i t tiEia^ttf- > 'M<(tffd ! thVCentVW : Hbdfd, s'a'wfth^t'th'e cfiief ffaM was in themselves j t ipey h^d neglected their duties as cyf2i§n^ ? and had thrown the ,the Local Committees on a mere fraction of. the people, the seventeen who, accoj,^ing Jo.your^cojjresppnd.e^nt, used to elecif' theW l^^jß^gog^ to whicteile^t^felcs^ithf'BUChFfilfeetibn. J cannot-^ißh ; 'th6^Kffi# f i'oWtu'raA^[ have I beeii^ci'iadtblyUafaEmedjiand your correspondent's letter confirms the information, tbajofor a^^iesjo^^ars^pt, one-twentieth of tlie hbuseholders^o^f^ftlspn'^aitendgd tbeae)meetings;)and( ia the country, as I know^foom experience r the~case was -nearly the SjimerrciWe- Jiave 'had\*['b,ett©raattondance at this electpn ; I should be glad to see it doubled 'at.ihe next election; ,1 neg!pn^ lf^ (; fl !n --..:? Kt r-:4 J^- 70 " But I to &fh ! ''Jdur^cMespondent that meanß jßhouldn^a~aidQptedfio prevent persons voting" w^noPare not qualified, and I" should tj |u'riKer~"probably than lua would in* my desire for a|o}ian/e^B to' Jhe elections. I should like to see" voting by ballot introdijced^ikndx^^qal^regard it as an improvement, if/ persona unable to attend %t WtlveVclbck iMtfrMM their vofe^latgißiff'tW^iay. m* 7^T^^3^liKe^T6~nMe"""tKes¥"^hlafi^e"B H«KM4b Q.WtS& tn&V&tf YnSele public -WliJeft^tt^vaeMns atf^preVelt fcp^lfiS rertnjnlnat® tfeea>W j Nelson, June 1^,^73: