THE FARNIE CASE.

Evening Star, Issue 6032, 12 July 1882, Page 2

THE FARNIE CASE.

The following correspondence has been handed to us by the secretary of the Education Board: — Normal School, Duneclin, 6th July, 1882. Sir,—l am glad that you have fully explained tome, In the conversation we had last evening at the University, the mind of the Board in regard to communications to the Press. Yon stated, if I understood you arieht, that it was not the wish of the Board to stifle the temperate discussion In the Press of educational matters by teachers or others under the Board, but only to insist that nothing should bo allowed to enter into such discussions which was calculated to injure the reputation or hurt the feelings of any servant of the Board. You stated, further, that this rule was intended not alone (as I had inferred from tho Board s letters) for the protection of the Board's officers, but equally to protect teachers from boing assailed by the officers of the Board or by other teachers, whether their superiors, subordinates, or colleagues. If this be an accurate statement of the rule of discipline which the Board are anxious to enforce, I can assure you that I am willing, not only to submit to it, but heartily to support it. I have already stated that, if anything I have said has injured or been offensive to Mr doyen, I greatly regret it. Permit me to again assure you that in nothing I have done have I been actuated by any other motive than a desire to promote the interests of education.— I am, etc., „ _ T. CUBYNE FARNIE. J. Shand, Esq., M.A., Chairman Education Board of Otago. The Appointments Committee of the Board, after considering the abovo letter, adopted the following resolutions : That as Mr Farnie's case is the first one of tho kind which has occurred, and as the Appointments Committee consider his last letter satisfactory, he bo informed that he is now at liberty to re-enter the Board's service in accordance with the resolutions embodied in the secretary's letter of the 3rd mst. That Mr Farnie's name bo added to the list of eligible candidates for the second assistantship in the Albany street School, and forwarded to the punedin School Committee.