Correspondence.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 723, 3 February 1877, Page 2

Correspondence.

ifcsr Our Correspondence columns being im» partially open to all matters of public ■interest, toe cannot be identified with, the, opinions therein expressed.

HAMILTON EAST DISTRICT SCHOOL-

Sir, — In reference to the proceedings of the Hamilton East School Committee as reported m your issue of the 30th inst, permit me to draw your furter attention to the contra-regularity adopted by the Central Board of Education on the part of the public schools, Hamilton West and Hamilton East. In the cage of Hamilton West, the school was erected at a cosfc'of about £316, the Committee actually paying only £35, thus leaving a net cost to the board of £281. In the oase of Hamilton East, the tender accepted for the erection of a school precisely similar to that of Hamilton West was £272, of which amount the Committee are prepared to paj at a moment's notice the sum of £ob, leaving a net cost to Board of £222, or at a less actual money payment to fchat of Hamilton West of £59. If I add the amount that would have been paid to the teache. 1 for the time the school was oloßed, namely, £60; we huve a total m the power and the hands of the Board of £119. The Committee, us you report, did obtain from the General Government a grail of land as a site for a school ; also an immigrant cottage intended for a tern-

aid for to erect* school, all of which has whole'has resulted m a first olasa^mßßfcer and matron arriving here under the bus-* pices of.the Board, this day, to find j^no school, and. no house prepared for their reception." Thie additional injustice the Board could 'have spared heaping, <not. only upon the ' Committee, but upon one who would naturally appeal to the. Board for advice under any or all- circumstances j How or why suc^flonduct^to a district, to a Committee, from acentrar governing power i« adopted, Tl aa *afc a loss to eon--ceivo. If, Sir, it-was incumbent upon the country to dispense with provincialism and leave the governing power m f he 'local 'bodies, as instance the Counties Act, this system of procrastination and -acts Of no person— to the detriment of so great an interest— must speedily result m giving a local power -for tberregulation and*maintainence of educational purposes. The Committee are prepared to hand you all the correspondence referred to m the foregoing, and to shew you why a third master was refused by the Committee previous to-o'osing Ihft'sobodl— I any *&0., AIBKBT Potteb, Secretary School -Committee, Hamilton East. Hamilton East, 31st Jan, 1877..