CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3745, 25 February 1891, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

TowajLandji Trust. [To the Editor] > Sir,—As there 1 is a iniatlhofe-' standing., between the Town Lands Trustees and'tne School Cominifteeß concerning the demands of the latter, it is as well that the public should be • able to read for themselves the clause., of the Act upon which the committees base their olaim for assistance. By studying it, parents and the publio will be able to see which side is in the right. The olause is .so plain, and simple that one cannot imagine how there could possibly be a difference' of opinion about it, and it runs as follows verbatim:—

Clause 20, ~'-' The lands.vested iu " the Trustees Bh'aflfbe held bf them, "upon trust .for ;tbe,purposes .ot " assisting general public ectuedtional "establishments, and, for a. public? "library, and other purposes'*of' 1 ''public utility in; the district; and? "the yearly rents and profits already " accrued and accruing from the saia "lands shall be expended iii suob " manner for the purposes aforesaid id " the Trustees shall, in their sole " discretion, seo fit."

From the foregoing it appears that " general publio educational establishments" (i.e. our schools; have a first olaim for assistance—and then comes the library. It is all Buch plain sailing that "he who runs may read." '•' ' . V Yours, &c, /f A.Parent;,. .*■/ To THE EDITOR. Sir—ltis very unfortunate that ? Mr M. R. Varnham rushes in suoha headlong manner into print, dragging before the public the name pfthe . amiable young lady who acted as pianiste to hiß orchestra, at the first ' performance of a Aladdin."i,and who really did oh; that occasion all that she could do.under the circumstarices, in which she was unfairly placed. People here are puzzled to know what Mr Varnham means by the passage ! in his letter published in your yesterday's issue, reading, *'The fault 1 ' ' was not that of tho pianiste or the Juvenile singers, but the gentleman who led paid little music, and thus at times caused very discordant sounds." Who.is "tho gentleman that led." Could it possibly mean the conductor of the orchestra. Surely not; yet I heard some such funny , ( sounds—truly discordant sounds—last night which certainly were never produced from the human form divine.

I am,'Ac,, Veritas Greytown N. 25th February, 180 liv