HOW TO GET THINGS DONE.

Shannon News, 25 November 1927, Page 4

HOW TO GET THINGS DONE.

WHITE TO ME. COATES. Auckland, Nov. >l6. “If. I don’t hear from you within "the next few days that this-school is being erected in the very near future I intend placing the full facts of the case before the Prime and I might tell you that, being an exi N.CJO. of the -loth North Auckland Company, when. I write to Mr. Coaltes I get things done. So it behoves you to shake things along as the matter is nothing more nor less than an absolute disgrace to your Department.” The unusual tone of the above letter, written by ”T. Maxwell, Maramarua, Pokeno,” caused members of the Education Board this morning to sit up. But it was evident from the smiles which passed around the room that the .general reaction was merely one of amused surprise.

The letter was in the nature of a complaint at the cancelling of an instruction to erect a new school at Kopeke, Mamamarua district, as decided upon two yeaTs ago. The chairman (Mr. A. Burns): ”1 the writer can get it done as he says he.can I am sure the Board will be pleased, for we have hot been able to do. so. It is a matter f,or the Department.”

Mr. King suggested that the letter be returned to the writer and that he be informed: that the Board was unable to receive a letter couched in such terms. It was decided to do this and to point out that after the erecion of the school was sanctioned the attendance fell off below the required total.