SHIRLEY SCHOOL

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21967, 16 December 1936, Page 7

SHIRLEY SCHOOL

TO TH* EDITOB OF TH« PRESS. I Sir, —On December 2, the householders of the Shirley School district expressed their disapproval of the committee’s action in terminating the services cf the previous caretaker. It was cne cf the largest meetings of householders that have been held, and the previous headmaster, the present school staff, and former committeemen expressed in no uncertain manner their entire satisfaction with the manner in which the previous caretaker discharged his duties. The majority of the new committee have' only had a few months’ experience, and yet they take this drastic action, just at the time when the Government increases the capitation allowance, primarily to give caretakers a better reward. It is about time the committee let the householders know what its intentions are. Also, it is the usual custom, when a vacancy occurs cn the committee, to elect the householders’ next choice. On two occasions recently this has not been done. When the last vacancy occurred, a person was appointed who did not allow his nomination to go forward at the last committee election. Now what is the use of the householders expressing their choice when the committee takes no cognisance of them? —Yours, etc., HOUSEHOLDER. December 12. 1936. [When this matter was referred to him, Mr S. G. Geary, chairman of the Shirley School Committee, said that the committee was taking no further action in the matter. An efficient caretaker had been appointed, and the committee was letting the matter rest at that. As for the vacancies on the committee, said Mr Geary, it was neither necessary nor customaryto elect the householders’ next choice. The new member concerned was elected as a result of a ballot of the committee.]