CORRESPONDENCE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 356, 19 February 1881, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do ret hold ourselves responsible for and opinions expressed by our correspondents. ; EDTIOB. \ Sik, —There is iv good deal of dissatisfaction with School- Committees this year, and I really do not wonder at it. It seems to me that there are,sps strange thinking members-oo the Beam'd Education- Take for instance Mi’Gillies ; he certainly is not on.the Board, just now, but none the more for that he is a member of the High School Committee-, and a minister to boot. Well, there he isv sticking out for all the money that Ihe Board’ can get, to bo spent in Timaru. He does not look far into the country to see how the children are to be educated there. He thinks that it is the town that keeps the country schools going; I think he forgets that there are so many educational reserves that bring in a handsome revenue. Take f° r instance the South Rangitatadis--trict. Theio toe thousandsof acres there,; and yet the school is CiV: ed > bocau « f e the district is poor, and the people cannot afford to pay the required, amount for a master. Still we.are supposed to have free education ! There is a griint for each child attending school. Well, this one is closed. What was the Board of Education thinking of to put the buildings there, that cost so much, and now, for the sake of a few pounds a year, they will let it go to. rack ;, or, perhaps, they prefer that the rats and mice should play hide and seek through its walls, or to have some other persons, who want to go in and have not got the key—to do the same as a certain rev gentleman did. the other Sunday, to allow the window, to be got through,' and the door forced open : from the inside. Rather good, was it not, especially as the rev gentleman is a member of the Board and a J.P. too. ' If such as that is done, I do not wonder that there is no money to carry on small schools,.as it would take something for repairs such as breaking locks.—l am, etc., ONE FOR COUNTRY- SCHOOLS.