THE NORMANBY SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 42, 4 September 1880, Page 4

THE NORMANBY SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Mb. Editor, — Oh, dear ! oh, dear ! whatever shall I do? The learned chairman of the Normanby School Committee has fixed my doom. He usuee, oh! such a frightful word. He says lam " squelched." E suppose it is Hebrew, but I don't know. I feel so frightened, for it must mean something dreadful. But a more awful fate awaits me, " Your correspondent," he says, " has gone too far in his evil Ways to be reclaimed by me." Dear me! God bless us! Can this be possible? Too far gone in his evil ways to be reclaimed by Mr. Charles Quin 1 Have you any wood to chop ? for I must drop my pen, in obedience to the orders of this great regenerator of the human race. "It is well known," and " everybody knows," are expressions which, according to this new lexicographer, signify very different things. Shades of Webster aud Walker ! a new definer of words has arisen in Nonnauby, to fill the world with his glory. But enough of this. I will only further notice that Mr.

Quin could not possibly have taken a more effectual method, than he has done by this letter, of demonstrating to a nicety the painful truth of my remark, having regard to his " illogical and unscholarly nonsense." His letter bristles with it from beginning to end. The remainder of it, together with the adjectives, " vile, base, untruthful, and so forth, is unworthy of a moment's notice. lam not, Mr. Editor, as you know, the author of the letter signed "Father of a Family," but only of that with the addition of the "small" added, as Mr. Quin tastefully and tautologically expresses it. The "humble pie" affair is, therefore, not applicable to "me. As to his signing himself " A Member of Committee," he had no business to do that. He should, in such a case, have signed his own proper name. " I signed myself," he says, " ' A Member of Committee,' and that's exactly what I am." That is true enough, but the name is still anomymous for all that, and cruelly unjust to his more prudent colleagues. If there is anything unfair in using an anomymous name, that unfairness is pre-eminently hard upon the other members of the committee, who are ashamed of their selfconstituted champion. — I am, &c,

Father of a Small Family.

[We have had to excise passages in the above letter. When will correspondents learn to discuss matters in a rational manner? No good can be gained by the use of strong language, and -no argument can be strengthened thereby. — Ed. Star.]