A PALTRY COMPLAINT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 212, 15 February 1915, Page 3

A PALTRY COMPLAINT.

To the Editor, Sir.—The dastardly attack made on a well-known schoolmaster in your issue of to-day b.v a correspondent under \he lie.n-de-plume of "Parent" hardly i i quires, notice, exdept to express one's contempt for the person responsible for (he letter. The services lo the cause of education in Taranuki by the master in question should ensure him from 'ittacks of the sort made bv "Parent." file committee in charge of his school have every confidence in him, and have nothing but praise for the manner ill which his school is conducted, —I am, \tc., PTTITJP SKOGLTJND. Stratford, l'2th February.

A SERIOUS MATTER. (To the Editor.) Sir,—Tn your issue of the 11th inrst.. under the heading of "A Pretty Pass," "Parent" draws the attention of the public to the dangers attending High School education. However, I feel certain that her serious indictment of the Taranaki Education Board, in allowing a High School master, or any other master or mistress, a day off to attend a race meeting cannot be correct. 1 am

Mire ihey are quite incapable of so betraying ilio confidence of the public. Tf tin 1 master "Parent"' refers to rrally was at lite races, it will bo found on enquiry—and the circumstances demand ;\ i most searching one-tliat tlio day's leave was obtained for some totally different purposes, probably to attend ft funeral, or wt ddim;\ or some such innocent and edifying function; and when tlie Hoard finds oufc the deception prac- 1 tised 0,, them it will take drastic action to prevent its recurrence. In the meanwhile ""Parent" deserves tlio gratitude of tlio community for drawing attention 1o t!ie danger our dear bovs run in attending tliese High Schools, where, for ail we know, instead of being taught science and mathematics, they are being initiated, into the diabolical mysteries of totnlUator odds and the pedigrees of blood horses. In oonclusi'"l'l, T must t"11 you,. Sir, that, X have oftt"i serio'i !v r< discontinuing your pa nor for no other reason than its otherwise respectable sheets arc so ( iii:-,!*;nired- T mhrht disgraced —by of '"Racing ?\ev\'r?."~-T am, etc., \ VATTTKR, MUCH FATHER Tarik\ February 13th.