The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1885. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2109, 1 October 1885, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1885. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Those who have watched the efforts that have been made to divide the Mastertou School District must have been immensely amused at reading the telegraphic account of what transpired at the meeting of the Education Board yesterday, which appeared in our local contemporary. We did not, of course, wonder when we saw fi'atemeuts in print in Masterton to the effect that the counter petition bore the signatures of a number of women and children, but we did not think, that anyone would have had the hardihood to repeat them before the Board, vhen he must have known that they were entirely unsupported by facts, except in so far that several lady householders, who are, of course, entitled to vote at school elections, exercised the right of expressing their opinions. Lotus see how the Evening Post reports the interviewMr Hogg attended before the Board in support of a petition from a number of householders in Masterton praying for the creation of another school district; in that township. A petition was read from, another section of the householders ptaying the Board not to divide the prssent district, on the ground that the time had not arrived when it was desirable such a step should be taken. Mr Hogg was heard on the subject. The Chairman explained to Mr Hoog that the polity of the Board was to concentrate, not to divide, and the matter under notice would be decided on the question of principle. .At the suggestion of the speaker the matter was referred to the, , Inspector (Mr Loe) for his ' report. How is it that the second petition in favor of division has not been allowed to see daylight in Mnsnerton 1 Is it filled with Michael Dowlings to such an extent that it has become too respectable for publication 1 If these questions are capable of being answered, those to whom they are put owe it to their self respect, to those who signed their petitions and to the public of Masterton to answer them, In addition we are also informed that tho Board has promised a second school for Masterton. We were always under the impression that a second school was promised when a Committee of the Board visited Masterton, for the purpose ofgathering data on thesubject, some eight or ten months ago. That promise has been kept steadily in view by the Board, as well as the Committee, and, acting On the strength of it, the latter only quite recently took steps to obtain a suitable site, We are sorely' 1 afraid thjit Mr Hogg's ipißsiojj tp town I

will prove fruitless, and that the Boaru will continue its course, unruffled by the misdirected zeol of a section of the Masterton School Committee.