IMMORTALITY.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 101, 30 April 1888, Page 2

IMMORTALITY.

(To the Editor.)

Sin, —I notice afc tho Mount Roekill School Committee election that the chairman of the meeting reported that portraits of Hor Majesty and of a member of the Board of Education had been hung in the school. I can quite understand why Her Majesty's portrait should be placed there (though I should like to know if it were done at the public expense), but I quite fail to see why the portrait of a member of the Board should hang there, unless indeed he deserves to be immortalised for his olforts to get a school enlarged which evidently did not need it, as it has been since only half full. It would surely be as desirable to immortaliso tho momber through whose efforts the Epsom school — a school within a mile and. a-half of three other schools—was lately enlarged and other members whose districts have unduly benefited at the public expense. In fact, all the members of the Board might give our artists a substantial order, and let their beauty be admired by future generations. Should they do so the funds might be obtained by a reduction from the teachers —those hundred and ton pound a year bloated aristocrats—who are tho butt of Boards, Committees, and Inspectors. Seriously speaking, I hope the Education Board will at once order the removal of this portrait from the Mount Roskill School. —I am, etc.,

Educationalist.