EDUCATION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1664, 1 July 1887, Page 2

EDUCATION.

To the Editor of the Star. Sir, — In your leader oi the 30th, re education, you have hit the nail fairly on tbe head. I think it is a monstrous iujustice that any schools ranging above the sixth standard . should receive any State aid. The aim arrived at in regard to education by our Legislature is to give every child an amount of learning that will make him a thoughtful and lawabiding citizen. I think all this is accomplished in our common schools. It does not appear to me that even justice is meted .out to the masses when, if a man desires to place his children out to trades, he has in man; ciißea to pay a premium, and in all to , support them during their apprenticeship. On the other hand, if a parent is in a good positiou in the centres of population and desires to train his children to .some profession, a grateful country steps in, and says; — "AH right, we will provide you schools in which you gan nearly, if riot quite, educate your children to take a position at once remunerative.placing titoee children at once free from all monetary; dependence from their parent*" If there, is to be retrenchment, let it commence, at. the right end ; not to cut .further the £4, capi^lion, meted 'out to the poor manY childl "~but the $19 capitation at' present {given to the rich. The high schools could still hold- their, position, but with this alteration; .that, apy increase ot..tbe;usua} capitation shoujdjcome.out of the pookets. of the parents of the pupils sent.T-I.am,

Mann,^6f Opnnake, iidesiropls of^-puttin^^l his tooth in one of Haowell's Sourinn ,g apples. I send you a sample, whicjL 1^ | believe is true. It^seems to cprr«pond, '| with Dr. Hogg's description of it,' : iodif6r^;| acidity I know of no other applife thati | retains it as it does. It is not. a dessert! \ apple, but a first-rate culinary apple, an<H keeps exceedingly well — as you may^pro**^ from sample sent. Mr; Mann's desonpitionl^ of tbe coloring does not correspond- witliaj^ mine' or -Dr. Hogg'« description, fortifetjl^ it very little coloring— merely a-fMrtM blush on one side where exposed to^wfh sun. 'Tile leaves are more pinnatt.|th| 3 shape than most kinds, and their dlwkj;* green gives a striking uppenranee. 1 ! bairtfo had planted out several six-yeiuf'^fei trees this season to stand permanently v^ for own use. Tbe Winter BlenheimrWriU^ ferred to I expect to be = the BlenhWoi || Orange, or Blenheim Pippin of sjSaw^jJ| this is also a winter apple, and far suppiriof IJ; to tbe last for dessert, but blights 5 in most localities. I may say thiit :thej!F trade has a fair knowledge of the faeilifi^^u there exist for procuring scions oc^ueeij^? ' direct from tbe old country, and. ; :'injWz 1 opinion is that we could do well withjojlt^ 1 a large number of thoie already import M.4 -lam.&c, , W.RotoV^ [We have sent Mr. Mann some offthiiJ specimens sent to us- —^Ed.| %-*& -f