The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, and Echo.
TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1888.
For the came that lacks assistance, For the -wrong that needs resistance, For tho future in the distance, And the good that we can do.
I There could be no mistaking the temper of the people at last night's meeting to discuss the question of national education. The meeting, which originated in.an intrigue against the system, has thus resulted in strengthening it and discom. fiting its enemies. A more representative assemblage has never been gathered together in Auckland, and it was practically unanimous in its determination to maintain, at any cost, the integrity of the present system. We believe if the question
had been approached in a different way, a reasonable proposal in favour of curtailing some of the extravagances and abuses that have grown up in connection with the Department would have found support; but the meeting was resolved — and rightly so—to show unmistakably that the people of Auckland would oppose as firm a front as ever to the foes of the national school system and would "hold the fort!' against all comers. The case stated in favour of changing the essential features of the present Act was just about as lame as it possibly could be. That old stalking horse " retrenchment," which has been used for the perpetration ot so many jobs, was trotted out once more, but he never cut a sorrier figure. "We thought it an extraordinary thing if a people who have been enjoying the blessings of our national school system for the last ten years would surrender their privileges without a struggle; and even if cajolery had prevailed over common sense in Auckland, we are confident that the remainder of New Zealand would have come forward in defence of popular privileges, and to thwart the attempt to establish class distinctions in our public schools.
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 156, 3 July 1888, Page 4
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318The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, and Echo. TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1888. Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 156, 3 July 1888, Page 4
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