RE PROPOSED MASTERTON HIGH SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10693, 14 August 1912, Page 5

RE PROPOSED MASTERTON HIGH SCHOOL.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —In you.tf issue of to-day's date appears a local to the effect "that m appeal has been made to the parents of children . attending the - District High School in Mastcrtcu, to ascertain if they were willing to send their children, to a High School if established." In the face of the above asserton I. would be glad to know who lias made, the appeal to the parents names cf one or more of the parents who were approached on the subject as you assort. The only persons appealed to by the committee of the proposed High School were tho Chairmen of 23 Schooi Committees, principally in, the Masterton Electorate, who were circularised requeuing the names of scholars who hare Proficiency Certificates, also the scholars parents' names and address. By no stretch of imaginataion can such a request be construed, as you have thought fit &o to do, for reasons best known to yourself. Hoping you will furnish the name or names cf parents who have been individually appealed to. Thanking you in anticipation.—l am, etc., '•: ■ H. N. BODDINGTON, Secretary to Masterton High School Establishment Committee.

Our correspondent has evidently i.ot road our paragraph. Wo did notstate that an appeal had been male. What we said was that "it is understood that an appeal has been made." That ici quite a different matter. From the information at our disposal, a»d from what was current talk in the street, we had reason to understand, though we had no definite data to go upon, that an appeal had been made. The letter of the secretary shows that, if an appeal.has net already been made, it in about to be made, so that'there is inot much to complain abou 1 In this connection, we may state that the Rev. A. T. Thompson, quite unintentionally, no doubt, misquoted our paragraph in a letter to our evening contemporary. We have the assurance of Mr Thompson that he d.d not intend to misconstrue our paragraph. He ateo informs us that he was not responsible for the heading to hiji letter. "Another Inaccuracy Nailed.'" This was gratuitously placed over a quotation which our contemporary must have known was incomplete. But we must expect stv h things.—Ed. Age.)