Correspondence.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3753, 24 January 1898, Page 2

Correspondence.

THE HAWERA SuHOOL AFFAIR TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — Mr Miller having voiced one section of your readers, will you allow me to do the same for another and I think more numerous section by expressing entire concurrence with the position you have taken and the views you have expressed on the Hawera school trouble. This is not, as Mr Miller implies, justice yielding to popular clamour, but enquiry extorted from half-hearted if not unwilling authority. For a stout partizan to be also a judge is entirely opposed to our traditions, moreover the verdict of ths Board justifies the demand for enquiry, and shows there were grave reasons why such peculiar conduct should not be glozed over in the flippant manner some would have it. 1 am sufficiently old-fashioned to maintain that the oustodians of our children should be above suspicion, but I suppose I shall lay myself open to a charge of prudery if I take exception to this example of "sympathetic accord" between teachers ; nevertheless I hope it will be an object lesson not to be forgotten. — I am, &c, N. T. Maunder.