EDUCATION BOARD ELECTION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10683, 10 July 1912, Page 4

EDUCATION BOARD ELECTION.

It is pleasing to note 'that .scone in'terest is being manifested! in. the Education. Board le'lections tOiis year. TSac'h of /the retiring candidates are opposed, and in- soiwa of the Waa'ds a sporit•Ect contest is expected. In the Waira'rapa Whrd, the BgQit is between Mr W. C. Buchanan, M.P., who is the •oadest .member cf the Board,, and Mr C. Churchill Jackson., of Kopuara,nga. ■Mr J'aekso'n has issued a cir-ouTlar in which, he m>ake£ an initelEgont, though hflfc altogether convincing appeal to 'the Committees. He -urges, for inVitance, that the Bush districts are not sufficiently on the (Board. This point has bi:en i'neffect'uiilily raised before. It imay be stated at owoe that members of the 'Education Board are sleeted to (represent t'lie iwhd?3 ctf the Wiaiirarapa Ward' and ttlio education district, and uo par-rti-c'n-Lar locality. Mr Jackson adduces ifno .evidence, to shio'w that the Bush districts (have been ndgleoted. Were (he cognisant cf the facts, h's would jknow tihat the c'laims of the Bush jiiave been consistently represented tfor years by mem.bo.rs of the Bo:vrd Jwho have an ».iti.maft> 'wtith the ir'equ,!*rcments, wad who aire in "{touch with, the various Committees. )Mr Jackson- is quite entitled to offer fc"(S cervices. Tndecd, 1:1? possesses Imany of the qumlßtics (essential to !a representative of the Bo.ird. But Ihe should not attempt to batee bis iclaiimis upon a ifallse assumption..