The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1882.

Temuka Leader, Issue 932, 25 March 1882, Page 2

The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1882.

Very little notice was ta' ; en by the Tim am Herald of the meeting of the Temuka School Committee, held last Tuesday evening, but what it said was of so misleading a character that we cannot allow it to pass uncarrected. The Herald says that “ a very stormy Coinpiittee meeting took place.” This is not true. There was not one angry word spoken, the business was discussed in very moderate language, and all that could indicate the existence of any unpleasantness was the resignal ion of four members of the Committee. So far as this is concerned to it was done in- fa, quiet, undemon-trative way. The, Chairman wrote out his resignation and after signing it pass'"! it around to the other members of (he Committee, who signed or refused as they thought fit. It is unfortunate that misrepresen- , tations like these should go, abroad.

Tilings were bad enough without cxag--geiating and distorting them, but we fancy we know how it all occurred. The Herald must have received an exaggerated report of the proceedings which it did not think advisable to publish, but put in the local which appeared instead. [t might, however, have made the local milder, and more consistent with the truth, as it was not certainly a fact that the meeting was a stormy one. The reports in the Herald have been the cause of all the unpleasantness, and it is very much to be regiv tted that it should wind up the last meeting of the Committee by making statements which were not true. We must say indeed that oe regret the action taken by those members of the Committee who resigned, as whatever other faults they may have, they, for the most part had one redeeming characteristic, and that was they had the interest of the school thoroughly at heart. This fact was strongly shown by the care and attention which they gave the business ot the Committee on the very evening they resigned their seats. Every question that came up received due consideration, and, was, discussed with as much interest as if the Committee held a lease for life of their seats. It is quite evident that they only felt a desire to promote the interest of the school, or they would not have given, themselves so much; trouble about matters at the very meeting at which they intended to resign, as thpve can be very little doubt that th.ey had made up their minds to take that course before they ever went to the meeting. They passed nothing in a slipshod-way, as might have been expected from men relinquishing office under the circumstances, but treated everything with care. Even when one of the members said they ought not to resign until they had carried out the entertainment in aid oi the school, the Chairman, said- he would do as much as he could towards making it a success outside of the Committee, as, well as if he were still a member-.. We make those remarks in justice to the retiring members, more especially as asper sions have been thrown upon them, Wc had occasion to differ with them, and to disapprove of some of their doings, but no consideration shall ever prevent us from giving “ honor to whom honoi is clue,” We say again that the last meeting was not a stormy om*, that it was conducted respectably, and we regret the action taken by those who resigned, as if they exercised a little more forbearance they' would eventually, uc doubt, settled have down, and worked amicably together.