MR W. H. JACKSON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 May 1913, Page 4

MR W. H. JACKSON.

One is almost tempted to think, from the remarks of Mr H. C. Robirison at his Lansdowne meeting on Tuesday night, that the High School question is, after all, only a subterfuge, and that the chief objective of Mir iß'obinson is to oust Mr W. H. Jackson from the Trust. There are some people who think that Mr Jackson lias no moral right to occupy <1 seat on the Trust, because the school of which he t happens to be headmaster receives certain monetary grants from the Trustees. Possibly Mr Robinson is one of these. We need hardly say that Mr Jackson's position in this respect is unassailable. If it were to be challenged, then that of every othsr Trust©? must be challenged, for they are all, more or less, directly or indirectly interested in one or other institution that receives grants from the Trust. Mr Daniell, for instance, is a member of the Technical School Managers. Mr Pragnell is a member of tiro Fire Board and the Competitions ■Society, and so forth. Even Mr Feist,' whom Mr Robinson is proud to claim as one of his "ticket," is a manager of the Technical School. If the position of Mr Jackson is to be challenged—and we see 110 earthly reason why it should be—then the position of almost every other member of the Trust must be challenged. We are not quite sure that Mr Robinson himself can escape. But, after all, it is Mr Jackson as an educationalist, as a man who knows what he is talking about, a® a man who is not afraid to express his opinions, that Mr Robinson is concerned about. Mr Jackson has done more for th > cause of education, primary and secondary, in this district, than Mr Robinson could do if he lived to be as old as Methuselah. At the most he can only, occupy His present responsible position in the District High School for another three or four years. The townspeople are surely not going to reject the services of one .so eminently fitted for the position of a Trustee as Mr Jackson, simply because he does not subordinate his views to the whims and fancies of one so utterly impo*ssible as Mir H. O. Robinson.