A BESTIAL COMPARISON.
' Apart from public sentiment-.re preference'for British, goods, and the powera and-"limitations of the Wangauui Education Board's .jurisdiction in connection with local school committee affairs; also the Gilbertian utterances of y.ell-mcaning but somewhat hysteri- <•;.! members at the last Education Board meeting, there is one statement by the chairman which should not be allowed to pass without comment. Mr Ph-ani is reported to have said "he would sooner see fifty thousand indecent pictures in a school than a German piano." Think for a moment on the comparison—admit enemy manufacture of the instrument, consider its purpose as an aid to art and refinement, bear in mind the tax imposed upon it and which found its way into the Consolidated Fund. Now turn to the "fifty thousand indecent pictures" for preference! The impressionable minds of the children; The comparison is too degrading to entertain. That the chairman of the Education Board should so far forget himself as to make such a comparison.is incomprehensible. We hope Mr Pirani has been misreported. JS. not, we say unreservedly that lie is unfitted to. occupy any position in any institution which has for its object .the educational or moral welfare of our little ones. "Eoxton Herald."?' L ...,.-: ...„' ■■.,-. . - h
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Otaki Mail, 28 February 1919, Page 4
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203A BESTIAL COMPARISON. Otaki Mail, 28 February 1919, Page 4
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