EDUCATION BOARD.
TO THE EDITOR.
Sir,—ln your leader to-day you attribute the defeat of Mr Joyce to his being a town member. Will you allow mo to state that, as a member of a country committee, the question of town v. country was never mentioned. And this is true of the other committees in this district. But what did weigh with us -was—(l) Mr Joyce being a member of Parliament, and thereby only able to attend to his Board duties part of the year; (2) and other reasons personal to Mr Joyce as a candidate. Indeed, we talked a good deal and hesitated a long time before we cast our vote for Mr Saunders, simply and solely because ho was an M.H.R. But we felt that he had special claims. Ha has been so long and honourably connected with education in'Canterbury, and he* has done so • much for primary education that wa were bound to yield to his special claims. But Mr Joyce’s rejection gives the other M.H.R.’a a plain warning to set their house in order. Out of tho Board they must go aa their present terms of office expire.—l am, &c., P. M.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10602, 11 March 1895, Page 3
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