THE TE AWAMUTU SCHOOL.
Sis, — A writer in the last Saturday* iatua of jour paper, under the norn de plum* •( " Fair Flay," Affects to be alarmed leat Mr Maclauren't appointment of teacher to the Te Awamntu achool would be unjust to tfa« Boman Catholioa io particnlar. Well, I believe I may §ay, m a resident of the neighbourhood, that they don't think anything at all about the matter ; for they know, and it » well known, that Mr MoLauren it * liberalunincUd lewible gentleman, and an acoompliahed Kbolar. Bat I may tell Fair Flay, who •eeua »o very kind, that there is one point in connection with the ■qpoikiiig oi sicular tehooli b»t» that
Roman Catholics are jutt a tniie touchy about, and that ii, tha appointment of clergymen to be chairmen or members of ■ohool committees. They hold that this practice i» uojuat to them, ami they, moreofer say, that although it rnny not be contrary to the letter of the Education Aot to do to, it is decidedly opposed to it» «pirit.— l am, &c., Gbntilk. T« Awamatu, Dec. 20, 1876.
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 706, 23 December 1876, Page 3
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181THE TE AWAMUTU SCHOOL. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 706, 23 December 1876, Page 3
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