WEST HAMILTON PUBLIC SCHOOL.

Waikato Times, Issue 660, 12 August 1876, Page 3

WEST HAMILTON PUBLIC SCHOOL.

Sib,— A fe w days' have passed and many hi eki might, (•• all el«« do) before any ore of our little harmless comir unity wculd tale pen in hand and do aoim-tliing towards bringing to liirht a matter whii h ifftots all, yes, I §»y affVcts ell, for I *m tare if it did not do to, to Cißneit an appeal as was made a ihort time ago would not have been so t| eedily and earnestly r«ponded to. I spe*k of our ■chool, and aa everything in cre»tion ba« a niimr, it onh exists here without a substance. Ptopl«m»y treat it scurrilouily and wi h contempt, but why do they not tip am ihim-eWei? Hate we no one aimngtt ua lliat mil will ipeak lomlly and o>en minded, regardless of poitton, i. nd cry down a r.niaance that haa b-iome d firetidet.tlk of every h meftead amongst n«. I hate natttd till the Tery blood l>c i b in n y veina for lome mere nbler fen than mine to cry aloud to the Boord of Erinchiion, (the cxiitenre of whicb we will toon brar of) with the voice of the peoj le to alter th* pri-»ent itate ot affair*. It, la not btcaose I send my children eliewliere, that I can live amidat my fellowmm aud bear them apeak of what I ir.yeelf know to be a f»ot without speakidg of ib. •la it fair.' Iwu asked, * that cur local icloolmaiter can diamiia hit ichool under the pretence of being sick, fc r the run of a fortoiebt, for ihe purpose of m nil ing ond making flow«r gardens f< r linnirlf.' My flwh crept, for I thought no one knew of it except bia neighbours, end tbat mattert might drop. In your last report of the school it is alatad that there is a great falling off in the pupils. I a?k for why P To my humble opinion it u on afcount of »o many bolidaya during tie yenr, and as children are never admitted until they are fift yean of age, or.Jy a few years are given them to lrarn 5 eidalco, in an agrcultural district ttke itj-if, bo)» never attain more than ten and

protvibly not more than seven years of ng« before they have to becomo useful. The girls, I also hear hhve all pone (o pr.Tdte schio'a in preference of stopping at the sth'>ol we annually 8 ipport, ami all for tho above reusons. — I am, &<*, Q-AByoy dk Burkau