CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3733, 11 February 1891, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor.)

Sm, —I observe in to-day's issue of the Daily your attempt to force a charge of inconsistency upon me in connection with the administration of the Masterton Town Lands Trust, in which I consider you signally fail. I now fully endorse the sentiments I am reported to have uttered three years ago. My objection to your advocacy of assistance to secondary education was not to the principle, but to your desire to subsidise a private school, and am still opposed to such action as was then proposed. I then believed, and still believe that the children of the poor and the working classes are the proper recipients of any assistance which the Town Laods Trust can give, and it would be to assist those of them who eliow marked ability at the examinations to prosecute their studies at one of the higher schools established and mainly maintained by Government that the present Trustees would be willing to apply a portion of their funds, but not to a private primary seminary under the name of a grammar Bohool where the initial standards and donning of cap and gown form a chief part of the .urriculum. In the suggestion oE scholarships I deny that there is any sop intended to school committees, bu l , simply a dt-sire to further the tion of the masses. No member of the Trust to my knowledge has ever voted in opposition to assistance beinggiven to primary education, but they hav voted, and I believe will continue t vote, against repairs to Governmen property of any description.

Yours, etc., W. Lowes. Maaterton, February 10th, 1891.