LAST NIGHT'S MEETING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10702, 24 August 1912, Page 4

LAST NIGHT'S MEETING.

The large crowd whirl) assembled at the Masterton Town Hafl last evening to have an hour's fun, was somewhat disappointed. Tho proceedings were almost as dull aj> dii-liw.iter. Mr Goorgo Heron hit the nail on the head when ho f«id that the who!.' l business was a "tempest in. a tea-euv. afld not worth five minutes' consideration." Tiiero was no necessity for the mooting. Nobody h.id asked M>Robinson to vindicate himself. A lot of blank cartridge had'been discharged during the last few weeks,,and no body had been hit. The Trust LandTrustees have yet to con-sidcr the re port brought down by Mr Robinson. If they do their duty, they will emasculate it if they do not actually throw it overboard. Tho decision 'f the meeting (which did not represent one-third of the voters'), that the time had arrived when Masterton should have a High School, is notbinding upon, the Trust or upon anybody else. It has yet to bo shown ! that a High School lz< necessary, and , that sufficient facilities are not al- [ ready offered for manufacturing clerk:' | and professional men. When the I matter comes before tho Education I Department, if it should ever reach I that far, the policy of preparing tin* youth of the Dominion .for the more I pressing nvocations in rural life will I be a determining factor, as it has been

in preparing the school syllabus in recent years. Meanwhile. Mr Robinson is vindicated, the High School v. in the dim perspeceive, and everybody is happy.