CLAREVILLE SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 697, 19 February 1881, Page 2

CLAREVILLE SCHOOL.

[The Editor Wairakapa Daily,] Sir,—l am sorry that your correspondent after walking two miles to the Olareville School was not able to give a full report of the meeting, but it is only one of these things that. will happen during our lifetime, and while we have to contend with such men as those referred to.

Will you kindly insort the two resolutions which were moved at that moeting, !)nd lost by the casting vote of the Chuiruiai), tq \yl}i]ti) | sljall refer again 1 The resolution .were 1$ follpw# (■»»'

Mov.ed by Mr J, Vile, seconded, by Mr Gooding—That a deputation wait on Mr D. Barry, consisting of Messrs Oorpe, Vile, and Bairstow, at the school-house, at 9.20 a.m., 011 Monday, J.4th inst.asking him to resign as master of the Olareville School.

Moved by Mr J, Vile, seoonded by Mr Walter Franois—That this committee consider the teaching staff of the Olareville school is not equal to the requirements of the district, and that tho fault rests with the piesent master, Mr D, Barry's, lack !/f pnergy and want of training as a teacher; ?i)d request that he be removed with the least posß.ibfe dalay. John Yip, Olareville, February 17th, 1881. School Committees are scarcely coujpe • " tent judges of the professional skill of a teacher. Such a question is clearly one for tljo Inspector to decide. We are not at ali sure but fljafc our correspondent exercised a iu onaittiug the resolutions'' cited 'above.—l Ed.W.D.