CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1501, 5 October 1883, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(to the editor wairarapA dai.lv?) ';", Sin,—l should be. obliged if you wild insert a few words in reference o the last report (as furnished by. a lewspaper correspondent here) of the iroceedings of the Eeatherston School JomitiUtee, and while writing I may ie able to set you rightas regards one ir two remarks made by you in your irfciole of the 2nd inst. With'regard' o the reports of the scliool committee neetiugs sent by a correspondent of fours and the correspondent of the tfew Zealand Times (one and the same jerson I believe) I have been struck )y their intense one-aidedness and the oias they display against the head ;eacher, by at one time' siippressino facts, and at another magnifying thorn is it suited his purpose. For example, take the report of the last meeting re correspondence when a memo, (written an a slip of paper) from the teacher re Bres is given at full length, and the other correspondence of some importance is simply referred to as being received, .flow, this seems to have been done for a sinister purpose, and what I wish you to note is this: for I see by your article that'you have been misled like others; that this insignificant little memo, was sent to the chairman of the school committee a week or • ten days before the sub-committee 1 appointed by the Education Board r visited Featherston, and was dealt with by them, so that you can see the | meanness of the affair being brought [ up again, and such prominence being given to it without reference to its I date, and after the sub-committee had reported. I am sorry to have to say , it, but this correspondent is known to be a member of the school committee,: arid a bitter opponent of the head " ;tea'cl)er's,and also-a "devoted follower : of the leader of the "no home-work • faction," I hope for the satisfaction of the public you will obtain and publish " the report of the sub-oommittee so that everyone may judge for themselves, I have no doubt that had this report endorsed the action of the committee we should have had it in full long ago. In conclusion, I would ask you, sir, what can be said in defence of. a committee which allowed its minutes to be wrongfully altered on one occasion, and on another suppressed them altogether. I say at once, without fear of contradiction, that in the opinion of every honest-minded man they are totally unworthy of the confidence that has been reposed in them, and they should be ousted from their position as soon as possible to prevent further mischief. And how is it that the present chairman, who ha,s reigned for the pasfr'fourteen or fifteen,, years, has only jnstdiscovered, now that'he ha& no children at* school, that' homework should be abolished!. ( And'yet] we are told that the committee is not' " led by the nose 1"

I am., 4c. Parent No, 3, bdt not onk or the COMMITTER