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Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 111, 8 January 1879, Page 3

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A great row has been caused by .. certain schoolmaster living in Tiinaru who chose to step out of his place as a teacher in that town for the purpose of teaching the Ger?ldine County Council the rules of his 3C-;ooh Pie tells the electors of the Geraldine County Council, “It is all very well for you to say it is not the truth that is taught in our school, sir. I must teach you to understand at puce that you are entirely ignorant ox our moral code. It does not contain n word of truth in it. It is all very well for you to say } - ou want a County Council at Temuka : no doubt it is the proper place for it, and you would be able to obtain a lot of money for the good of the district, but you must recollect that Timaru is afraid your Milford harbor will be a reality, and you know that would never do for Timaru. 1 have no doubt it would enhance the value of property at Milford enormously, but our establishments in Timaru would sink in value if you had a harbor at Milford, and you must not have it, although I had a great sweat of intellect over it seven hours on one occasion when I battled hard for it, and but for my persuasive powers yon never would have got your bill passed. I have told people you would he greatly helped in this matter by a Council, but I have taken it into my head that it will not suit our school for you to have a County Council at Tcmuka, and when I once make up my mind to do a thing 1 will do it, remember that. It is all very well for you to say we gave you your diploma and you ought not to throw us overboard that way ; you did not tell us that you taught such doctrines or we would not have granted you your license. Come now, says the drill master, I will have none of this, it only shows your ignorance. If you had carefully read our school book during the List few weeks even you would have seen that the word truth is not in it ; jmu might have seen that from the Harbor Board report. Look at the way that itinerant lawyer was drilled, that will show you the rides and language we use in our school. No doubt he w r as a ratepayer in Temuka, and attended the Council meeting by urgent invitation from several members, but you must not take any notice of that, he offended our superior officer and must be punished, that is the way we do with all those that do not believe in onr teaching. If we did not do that their would always he some of our piqils rebelling. No doubt you have seen an outbreak at Temuka lately, they have got a new schoolmaster there who leaches and speaks truth rather fearLssly ; ho has been instrumental in doing much mischief. A number of our pupil.s are in a state of insubordination, but 1 have been out thei-e this week and drilled them. A great many attended drill, you see how 1 can make them march in 01 dm by Only telling them that but for mo they would" never have got the -10,000 acres of land for their hai’bour, and that 1 laboured and was in pain night and day lo secure that object. I told them that I did not favor Timaru, for I fear that even yet some of them who have forgotten their lessons dare to say tha t I care not Hr their iuteras's, \ 011 just wait a litt'e and see how J v ill throw j the glamour o'er then* Ten. Remember I I am a pupil 0" Mr St ff'ojJ’-q he was the | boy that coin! f row dust j 1 the eyes of j the Timm nit s ; oh, how i. miss that gen- j tlciuaii, ■'here is not a 111 in among all the j new upstarts ■•oukl teach 1 he doctrines of j 01 ;v sc -mol like Mr Stafford, he could just stand n > 01. a pTlmriu and talk and talk uti'ii I. is audmnee, wish open mouths, were enrapture ■' ami went li nne enunmed as they thought with as mu h ] <>liti• -nil | knowledge as would last them for a lif •- | tine* ; he would talk to them of tlie fine j harbour he was going lo give them, and j their splendid iiospLG, and such a magni- j ficent Courtoouse too. Have you read <«ur account of it, surely not? After such eloquent addresses as he used to r make the people , were charmed, but 10, when they awakened m-xt morning thej 7 found the glory had departed, and Mr Stafford too, and the beautiful harbor with him. Teat is the way that I do when I go'to Temuka. Lm waii It does not do to be in too great a hurry you know, tint here comes another ess iv by last train from the smith, only look at it and see how well my pupi.s are schooled, not a word of tnxtb in it from beginning to end. I expect a lot more next mail. Somcjfrom Temuka, some from Geraldine, some even furtlur north, not from Christchurch though. They are a perverse generation there. There is a schoolmaster there culled Press, he made a terrible onslaught upon our schoolmaster one time ; if lie had not got hold of Mr Stafford he would have been crushed to death, as it was he was terribly lacerated, he trembles yet Avhen he thinks of it. Now that we have got that county business over we will be aide to commence giving lessons again. It was a stiff job that. It did not turn out as I would have liked it though after all, but it will serve our purpose better than the other would. We know we are not very consistent, but our memory is had, that is why we so often say one thing one day and another thing another, but we have got am assistant s •hoolmaster n ’w who will check all these things, I am just going over the ‘ Geraldine County Chronicle’ (glorious tit’e that) you know, 1 was sure the council would hail from Timaru, near our schoolroom, that was why I chose that name for our weekly, it is to be a book giving as it were a weekly rehearsal of all the schemes, plots and lies taught during the week. Look what a splendid heading it has got, people at homo will ficck to Timaru when they see it, every one must he charmed with the beautiful harbour ! the immense length of the south mole ! the traffic to and from the wharfs ' the lax-ge Warehouse on the reclaimed land ! what a grand place they will say Timaru must be with all these buildings and shipping - . ’fixe ‘Timaru Herald ’ did all that, but for it there would not have been a single ship lying alongside our quays yet, nor a single bale of wool shipped from the trucks. That is nothing to what we will do yet We are getting xtp some new school books just now, they are carefully revised, contains the choicest language that could be iimmined, even up to the standard of the ‘ Herald.’ Wo quote largely from Sir G. Grey’s works. He, you know, isa very able man. Speaks a great deal of the language of our school We do not believe, though, that lie is to he trusted. He threatens to i:nx the land owners heavily and you know lots of (hem were our school-fellows and v, e cannot lolorate that our establishment wnulm go to pieces if we did notproffet -"fepouta °- of onr pak-mg;. ’

Tins will not pay us, we'nxust not allow it, even if we sacrifice our friend Sir George. He is Suit an old fool anyway. Ido not under-fan. i how T could have trusted him for a Inil.-t ! Never mind, i will upset him by and bye, even if I should condescend to be premier myself ! But it is getting late and 1 have to go to Geraldine to drill our pupils there. So good-bye for the present.