TATARARIKI.

Wairoa Bell, 16 June 1893, Page 3

TATARARIKI.

(From Our Own Cori - espondent.) It must be nearly three years since the Board of Education men first approached with a view of having a school opened this district. The amount of correspondence on the matter I am informed would load a bullock dray and the money spent in paper and postage would have built a University - . At last the Inspector was instructed to examine and report on the matter, with the result that we were informed if we erected a building at our own expense the Board would provide a teacher. Seeing the lavish expenditure ou schools in or near large centres of population we thought and still think the demand an unjust one, hut finding there was nothing else for it, a few of the settlers combined and after a great deal of contriving managed to put up a building suited to the requirements of the district. The Kopuru School Committee I believe have done all in their power towards getting the building opened but the Circumlocution Office in Auckland must not be h urried, and in the meantime many of those who came here intending to settle are leaving the district because they see no immediate prospect of getting their children educated. Still, the laws of this country are such that a person would he-ad—-judged guilty of a breach of the peace if he went to Auckland and murdered the Chairman or Secretary.

And now a few words to my friend of Paparoa. I am exceedingly well pleased to hear that my burlosque account of his district served to amuse the readers of the Bell in that locality as that was my intention in writing it. But it was too had of him to stigmatise my verses as trash. I will never forgive him, although Betsy Jane said the same thing before they were printed. If your own correspondent only- knew of the sleepless nights, ond the amount of the mental tear and woi'ry it cost to put them confounded verses together he would not only- forgive me hut would get the Paparoans to present me with a testimonial and a silver gilt feeding bottle in duplicate. I regret I cannot accept his proposal to seriously discuss the merits of our respective districts, as personally I am entirely unacquainted with Papdroa, and your own is evi-

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