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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2898, 10 February 1891, Page 2

Tilk uassagc-.'it-ai'nis tllo Chairman of the Tamahere School ('ommittee and the Auckland Education Board, over the junior scholarships examination, has brought to the front a state of affairs_ of very considerable importance in connection with the tinching stall's in our public schools. The Chairman has. 110 doubt, good ground for making the chai'iir, I hat' certain schools are owr-stiillvd. Were further_ enquiry nK'dc, 111 all probability ll

wfi'.tl 1 he found that this a].plifts much more generally, than the public havi. anv idea of, iincl to those who thills our system of eiiiieatien is 100 costly, it opens un a field in-vesti-"ution. tliat min'ht net '«e altogether barren of vsse.lts. This however, is imt the point we have to deal with at nresnnt. The reply from the Bo.u'cl was to the effect that t tioy could not jrrant a scholarship us it would be con-h-ary to regulations. 'J'lhs may be perfectly true. hy should the Hoard shield themselves behind the regulation in tin: face of a bifieli of their regulations in another direction, to which their attention was called, and >vhich had tho effect, of dealing- out a very palpable injustice to the scholars of tho Tamn.here and other schools similarly situated. The eonaitions under which the competition for the said scholarship took place are so manifestly unfair, that fve are surprised | the Board did not make some special provision to meet the case under discussion. We belie ye we uiv correct in stating that the late e.vainitiations were the first comluctcd under the amended regulations, and it i>> quite possible that the question oi the i actual staff', and what that staff' should be under ilia regulation, was overlooked when alloting the scholarships. ' It is, however, so manifestly unfair ' that a school with only its ' proper regulation staff should be ! asked to compete against another : over-staffed, that it is unnecessary to further discuss the question. An injustice has certainly been done to a very large number of scholars by the infringement of this regulation, ' and the Tamahere School Committee ' will have the sympathy of the public i with them in appealing ta the Minis- : ter of Kilucatiou on the subject.