The Temuka Leader THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1882.

Temuka Leader, Issue 931, 23 March 1882, Page 2

The Temuka Leader THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1882.

Four of the Teipuka School Committee resigned last Tuesday evening, at the meeting which was held in Mr Hayhurst’s house. Mr Harrop. had previously resigned, and therefore only Messrs Bolton and Davis remain, members of the Committee. As it takes three members of the Committee to form a quorum, these can. do nothing, so that actually there is no Committee at present. The most unfortunate part of the whole affair is that there is no provision in, the Education Act for such a contingency, and consequently no Committee can be elected before next January. If three ot the old Comnrttee remained it would be sufficient to form a quorum, and they could fill up the vacancies, but as there are only two they cannot do anything. Sometning similar occurred in Timam some time ago, the only difference being that the Timarn Committee resigned in a body, owing to the Board of Education appointing a second master to the school m opposition to their wishes, and when it came to electa new Committee, it was discovered that there were no provisions in the Act for doing so ; consequently the school was left to the management of the Inspector to the end of the year. This is exactly what must be done in, the. present instance, unless, some provision has been made icccntlyand we are not aware of any. There will now be no Committee until

next January, and as we believe there is a necessity for a proper supervision of the school, it is very much to be regretted. It is useh-ps now to say who is in fault or who is not. The only thing we mean to say is that it is very much to be regretted that the members who resigned did not look more calmly on mutters, and show a greater amount of forbearance. We beih ve both sides were welt nigh tired of tire differences which occurred between them, and that if they had tried to get on well together they would eventually have worked amicably.