CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4177, 28 July 1892, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

A Matter of Schooling.

[To the Ediiob, Wairabapa Daily ,TlMiJB.] Sib,—l see by your last issue to hand, that one half of the Education Act can cause much trouble to parents, R.M. Courts, etc. If justice can be got out of the 93rd Section,- why iB the Board so backward in giving an answer to the 88rd Seolinn ? \Vhy has a Committee the power to enforce one Section, if it has not power to enforce the other 1 We have it on good authority that there are 2892 children in the Colony attending school over age, and the same is thrown at the local Committee as a soothing lotion. What are our head men doing to allow such anoutlay as this ? Do you not think it ia carrying free education too far! Does £6OOO per annum dear it, if they are all allowed capitation ? If the Board oan allow that, I should think it could afford to qet us good water for this school,

Instead of keeping the committee here waiting till the carpenter next viait-aiho Wairarapa, to put in a pane of glaasTand do a few little repairs, which the Committee cannot do for the want of funds, it could make a grant; but no, they won't do that, Still, the Board can find money to keep schools going which ought to be thinned out at the rate of about five per cent,, and if the thing is properly oleared up, four per cent, are of the upper class, which makes the matter worse than ever,

I cannot make out how the Board expects men to carry on their duty as to meeting accounts, etc;, when thoy have nothing to act upon. And when they ask for assistance, they are simply ignored. Their" paltry brief authority " ought to be worth something, if only for interest on the tirao spent on a winter's night attending the meetings.. Things are thought to be very quiet here at present, as the Committee are supposed to be beaten off; but it is a mistake, as they intend to carry this out if it costs all hands their seats, They are quite prepared to see this city with a committee that will follow in their present footsteps arid show that the Act is as binding for one side of the question as it is for the other. Hoping I have not intruded too much, and that the Taueru Committee will not be put down when they are in the right boatj must conclude, with confusion to those who would work against black and white. I am, etc, 0.0. 'Taueru, July 27tb.