ADMISSION TO SCHOOLS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 150, 27 May 1936, Page 8

ADMISSION TO SCHOOLS.

(To the Editor.) gj r In your report of last week’s meeting ot the Wanganui Education Board I notice they have at last decided to investigate the complaints made by myself regarding children being refused admission to our schools. A whole month has gone past, m which the board has run the gamut of a range of subjects from gallant gentlemen to the egotism ot the board. Everything, almost, seems to have attracted the attention of the majority of the members, except the complaint, “children refused admission to our schools.” This seems to have had but the passing glance of cold respect. ' The board.at its meetings concentrated on chastising me for not communicating with the local members. My first letter of complaint was written to the board, setting out the grounds ot the complaint, and if the secretary ot the board had replied, suggesting I should make my complaint through the local members, all this fuss and hullaballoo could have been avoided. The secretary, instead of doing as suggested, held the letter for a board meeting, when one of the local members took umbrage. What he said on that occasion was bad enough, but then I got a letter from the board, in which I vas expected to quietly submit to a snub; well, Mr Editor, I am not built that "it the recent meeting one or two members came back at the attack like a man who knows he is to be hanged, but cannot help pushing his head into a series of experimental nooses, just to get the feeling of the operation, so I will commit the last sad act and hang them once and tor all, for I enclose two letters from local residents whose children have been refused admission to our schools. The members seemed to think it was impossible tor me to find more than one. I leave it to you, Mr Editor, as to whether you consider it necessary to print these letters. , . T In conclusion, let me say, nothing 1 have written gives me the slightest uneasiness; neither fear of the boaid, nor anger with its members; nor that, which is more troublesome to one s conscience, the knowledge of having been in the wrong. How do the board members feel on this score. iotas

faithfully. ,