PERSONAL CANVASSING FOR APPOINTMENTS.

Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 108, 30 May 1885, Page 3

PERSONAL CANVASSING FOR APPOINTMENTS.

TO Tl'R KDIIOR. I Fir,— l H?e tro-n a paragraph published in your issue of yesterday that " the praotice of personally canvassing individual members of the Education Board on the port of teachers who may be applying for appointments to vacancies, was severely commented npon by several members at the meeting of the Board." I admire the innocence of the gentlemen referred to. Do they really suppose that the appointments in the (,ift of any Education Board or other publio body an ever made without " personal canvassing," and with reference to merit alone ? If so, they aro wonderfully mistaken. It is very possible that "street bntton-holing" may be a great nuisance, but men of sense, who occupy any publio position and have appointments in their gilt, generally know perfectly well that it is a nuisance which they must put up with. Until the millennium comet, merit alone will have very little ohance without personal influence is added to it. lam, Ac, One who knows the Colont. P.S.— I understand that in the ca«e referred to by the members of the Education Board the teacher who did the "personal canvassing " referred to, was successful in her application.

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