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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3563, 28 May 1880, Page 2

(To the Editor of the Evening Stab.) Sib, —How is it can you tell me that the School Committees of the Thames do not avail themselves of the provisions of the Compulsory Clauses of the Education Act, there are numerous boys and girls to be seen daily, wasting their time in idle* ness or boisterous play; this is not as it should be, the system of Government Education costs the colony too much money to alow its opportunities to be neglected by thoughtless or ignorant parents and guardians. If some influential member of the School Committees called a general meeting of the inhabitants on this important question, a correct idea of the feeling of the community would be arrived at. At present through the division of interests, by so many different school committees it seems improbable that action will be taken by them. Until every child of , the district can be ascertained as positively on tbe roll of a school the provisions made by the legislature are hull and void, and the ratepayers money is spent without the full and adequate results which would accrue from a general system of enforced education.—l am &c,

CIMBELIKE.