Pututahi School Trouble.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 184, 18 August 1888, Page 3

Pututahi School Trouble .

• — F A REPLY TO “ UNBIASSED.” b ———— i [TO the EDITOR; 8 Sib,—On the letter signed “ Unbiassed ” allow me to make a few remarks. Such an effusion e from beginning to end speaks for itself, and [ as you yourself correctly state, the writer's 1 inuendoes certainly do not seem to spring 1 from an “ unbiassed ” mind. Certainly he is quite correct in stating that the report you published had a leaning—a considerable leaning—to one side, viz., that of justice, truth and right, which your correspondent * had not the courage to state. Again, he goes ' on to say that you mistake public-house influence for a healthy public feeling. What, ( I would ask him, was the feeling of the pub- ( lie meeting held by the parents and house- < holders, but one of wrath and indignation at the disgraceful proceedings of four conepira. tors and their paid Secretary • Again he goes ■ on to say, ■■ What were the Committee elected 1 for ?’ To dismiss the master, as one of their 1 number confessed openly to the public that was his sole reason for getting on to the Committee. Again " Unbiassed” remarks that the majority of the Committee must have the tontrol of business. Granted, and witness how they managed their control, by concocting false and malicious letters in some private house, and forwarding them to the Board of Education, which letters were condemned as illegal by a respectable and highly intelligent public. As to the character of this Committee who have been subjected to this gross snub, we may safely say had they not been richly deserving of it they wotild not have received it from the hands of such a respectable and influential audience. Your correspondent suggests that an impa.tial enquiry should be made. This has already been made and what wee the result but a righteous cop. demnation of their whole proceedings, and the discover? of a plot to dismiss the master at all hoard no matter how it might be accomplished ? Whilst on this subject w e are *lad to state for the information ol the pubIL- that the petition forwarded to the Board has been signed by almost every settler in Fatutahi with one or two exceptions, and two or three who would have willingly signed, hut wnote religious scruples prevented them signing, and one ua»e m particular, ni a defenceless woman, having three children at the school, being deeiroos of signing, was threatened with the Ices of her work if sl.s dared sign ths formidable document. Nay, further, she was asked some time ago to lodge a complaint ageinst the master which she nobly refused to do. In conclusion, sir, should your correspondent favor us with another sffosion we shall be delighted to furmsn him with a few mura extiaordiaary developments, but aa your subscribers nan pretty well guess ham where it originated they have read it with Bontempt, and taka it for what it is worth.—l am Ac. Jcsmtco. Patatthi, Auj At 17, iSBh