HARAPIPI SCHOOL SITE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 810, 25 August 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)

HARAPIPI SCHOOL SITE.

Sir, — I am not going to trouble y«m with another account of the above subject, as tbe spirit animating Mr Thompson's letter is too appiren!; to weed refutation, bnt I do express n>y astonishment that any person ciuld be found to pea such a letter on that subject. I could easily show that he has not given a correct version of the facts, which are pretty well known to the Board of Education and the settlers m this district, who are the only persons c.mcTned, and I venture to say few will be found to take the same view of it as MrThomp3on. The letter itself speaks volumes for the writer, and to those who know the circumstances, is a sad proof of the lengths to which a petty malignant feeling will carry a person. No one knows better than the writer that the whole tenure is to give an impression directly coutrary to the truth. My letter was not;, according to my ideas, a " beautiful " one, as he terms it, but it was strictly and literally true m every respect, and sorry I am to have a neighbour whose oond uct could draw such a letter from me. ' My "little games" has hitherto been exercised io trying to open up the district with good roads aud to advance it generally, efforts m which I have always received Job's comfort from Mv Thompson. For the future they will be more practised on my own farm with, I trust, a more profitable result ; at any rate, they will not give your correspondent food for thought aa I have retired from the Road Board of which he is a member, and of which I have been a member since its formation m 1869, with the esoeption of one year. I am happy to state that, m spite of his well-known opposition, the school is built and on the most central site m the district, though I■ am afraid it would never have been there if had nor, fortunately had an offer of a site still nearer his gate, from another person. The thanks of the settlers are certainly due to the 3oard of Education for their liberal treat, menfc m the face of the unmitigated selfishness with which they had to contend. I shall not trouble you with any further notice of your correspondent's remarks. —I am, &c, Edward Q-. MoMinn. [This letter must close the correspondence on the matter m question. It has been sufficiently ventilated from both sides.— Ed W T.]