CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the '^Evening Mail." i Sir, — In your issue of last Friday appears 1 a letter signed " Outis " referring to the Census papers. May Ibe allowed to " waste a little soap " onlyour correspondent. Firstly, it is not fair that information gained under the pledge of privacy should bd ; secondly, it is neither manly ncr kind to ridicule the want of education unless conceit is combined with ignorance ; thirdly, the Sixth Standard boys will not alter the case for the better, since there are, as a rule, more material errors in the papers of the educated than the uneducated. In conclusion, the blunders were not all on the side of the persons filling up the papers. Where did the enumerators gel their instructions for asking that the kind of covering for the roof be given ? Next time I would advise all persons who have not passed the Sixth Standard or gained a scholarship to lei the enumerators fill up the papers themselves, merely dictating the contents ; perhaps they will then publish the result of their spelling &c. — I am, Ac, lunoiunce. Nelson, April 19, 1860.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 92, 19 April 1886, Page 2
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188CORRESPONDENCE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 92, 19 April 1886, Page 2
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