EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE. PRESENTATION OF ADDRESS TO MR K. J. O'SULLIVAN.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 309, 20 October 1888, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE. PRESENTATION OF ADDRESS TO MR K. J. O'SULLIVAN.

At the meeting of the Educational In&titute which was held yesterday afternoon in the Wellesley- street School - building* Mr H. Worthington read the following report with regard to the presentation of the address to Mr R. J. O'Sulhvan, late Chief Inspector of Schools . On Saturday last, in accordance with previous arrangement, a deputation of teachers, consisting of Mrs Harden, Misses VVann and Longmore, and Messrs Harrison, Bailey, Worthington, Leonard, Benge, Cionin, Mcintosh, and Jones waited on Mr O Suliivan, at his residence, Mount Koskill, to make the presentation ofc the addre&s recently agreed to by the Auckland bianch of the New Zealaud Educational Institute in recognition of his long connection with the education oi the district as Inspector of Schools. In the absence of the Chairman, Mr R. D. Stewart, of Onehunga, who waB prevented from joining the deputation through illness, the presentation was made by Mr W'ortkington, who was able to i assure Mr 0 Sullivan that the address was not the gift of merely a few, but that nearly 200 teachex's had. subscribed their names. These, when the list was completed, would be inscribed on vellum and presented at an early date. Mr O'Sullivan was much pleased with the address, which he accepted with evident satisfaction, and not without some feelings of emotion made the following reply :—: — " My dear triends, — I beg to thank you earnestly for the address which you have presented to me. It is couched in kindly terms, which could not fail to touch me. I am particularly touched by your statements that ' I have ever been the consistent friend of the teacher, 5 that I have 'received the hearty goodwill of those who in the various schools of the district are carrying out the work of training the young,' and ' that you bid me farewell with feelings of kindly sympathy.' These are the feelings 1 should moat desire to evoke, and it atfords me the keenest satisfaction to be assured by you that I have evoked them. Again siucerely thanking you, I beg to remain your attached friend,— Richard J. O'Sullivan. To the teachers of the Provincial District of Auckland. 5 ' Mi 1 Worthington said that after receiving Mr O'Sullivan's hospitality they left. But tor the state of the weather, no doubt the attendance would have been much larger. The Chairman, Mr Stewart, expressed his regret at not having been able to have attended with the deputation, but ill-health prevented' him. On the motion of Mr Cronin the report was received.