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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7739, 15 February 1905, Page 2

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(We r arc not responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.) EDUCATION BOAHD BYE-ELEC-TION. (To the Editor.) Sir,—lt is greatly to be regretted that you should, in your wisdom, see lit to refer to the above matter lin the way you do in your leader jthis morning. It will not make for :thc general peace if the day ever comes that the Prohibition question be dragged into every election, great i or small. I don't know that those ' who vote for no-license have need to foar if this result should be brought 'about by such ill-advised remarks as • those contained in your leader ; but |voters for no-license in general have no desire that this question should be introduced into matters quite foreign to it. In considering the fitness of a gentleman to sit on the Educution Board, why on earth should you refer to the fuct of his being a Prohibitionist ? There would be just us much sense and force in your saying that he was an agriculturist, and therefore incapable of coining to a right conclusion on any question relating to educationu'l matters. I am not interested in either candidate, but, now that you have drawn public attention to this election, it is only right to say that it is quite possible Mr Maunder muy be ja very useful member, if elected 1o the board. Besides being a retired schoolmaster, it may turn out even he possesses the qualifications you yourself consider especially n<--cessary, viz. : " business ability and common sense," in spite of his being a Prohibitionist.—Yours, etc., W r . (3AUKKODGEK.