EDUCATION BOARD CANDIDATE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 174, 8 July 1932, Page 8

EDUCATION BOARD CANDIDATE.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Please allow me space to enter this education controversy. Mr Heenan at last Friday night’s meeting of the Havelock North School Committee stated that Mr Marven, as chairman of the combined committee’s meeting held at Paki Paki on June 21 fest, should have declined to accept a motion re nominating a candidate to represent the Country Schools' Association on tho Education Board. Now Sir, I can assure Mr Heenan that had he been presiding at that meeting and declined to accept that motion he would quickly have received a lesson on the rules of debate and would swiftly and surely have been dealt with and shown that the meeting would not be trifled with. Now in Ins letter of sth inst. Mr Heenan says: “It does not matter how conscientious a member may be, he naturally cannot keep in touch with the requirements of the more distant parts of his electorate as he can with the schools nearer home,” and I thank him for that admission. Well, Sir, Paki Paki School is not far distant from Havelock North and I have now entered upon my third year as chairman of that committee and I have yet to receive my first communication from the Rev Waugh that he was paying the school 1 a visit. I would also remind Mr Heenan that Havelock North is not the Middle Ward. Now, Sir, the Country Schools Association was not formed for social purposes, therefore it must be more or less political and I maintain that in seeking to place a direct representative on the H.B. Education Board they have not exceeded the functions for which the association was formed. Mr Sutro has assured the association that he will

give the time necessary properly to carry out the duties pertaining to the position. Mr Maddison, m ins letter ot July 4, says it is not within his province to interfere in the election of a representative of the Middle Ward on the H.B. Education Board, yet a reprint of his tetter has since been sent along with a circular signed by Robert Waugh to every committeeman. This I maintain, Sir, is absolutely unfair especially as he had signed that letter as chairman of the Education Board. —Yours etc., J. W. TALBOT, Chairman Paki Paki School Committee. Ngatarawa, 6/7/32.