CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1708, 22 August 1887, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

TWe do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents. To ensure publication, however, it will be necessary for writer*' * to avoid personalities.! ' i

A GOOD MAN TO TRUST.

To the Editor of the Star.

Sir,— Mr. T. Kelly asks us to give him our confidence, and I therefore send you the following two extracts from hut week's papers. Speaking at Stratford (ride Budget) Air. Kelly said : " Others again were for cutting- off free education after passing the fourth standard. To show tbe utter ignorance of speakers on tbis subject, be showed that this, if given effect to, would only cause a saving of £300 a jear ia the Taranaki district, and it would have tbe effect that th« children of poor parents who possessed the divine gift of intellectual power would be deprived of being further educated, and tbeir future career seriously hampered." Now compare those words with what Mr. Kelly himself bad said when speaking at Bell Block a few dayi previously (vide News) : " If wbat was meant with regard Co how far tbt State should educate free was a proper passing io standard 4, he was with them, as he had found out that children, when they reach the age from 12 to 13, wer* generally taken from school, as they were required to help on tbe farms or otherwise. Therefore, it would not be an injustice to do away with the other two standards, viz., 5 and 6, which could be taught ia the secondary and high schools." Few of us know much of Mr. Kelly, so that I think a contribution like tbe above should be very valuable in enabling us to form something of an opinion as to his claim for confidence.— l am, Ac, A NGAIKB EIECTOI.