PROFICIENCY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 31 October 1921, Page 6

PROFICIENCY

(To tho Editor.)

(kir.--llm.ld you or one of tho ameers of the MoiTieka Disrricf. School, C immitieos’ Association g:vo me an exohmation ot the present allowance til'ativ) as per remit. (5) brought forward at the Orinoco .meeting the other Saturday, which road* as follow s. ‘•From llarakeke: ‘Hint rim Emicu(ion Oepiirtmont. be requests to .increase the lodging and travelling nllowanco ol* scholars have o’btainocl p.'ofieicucv, to enable them to conbrnio [heir studies, as the allowance, is inadequate for scholars living^ long distances from secondary A reply in your columns will be esteemed a favour, as I am vitally interested ir secondnrv education, hue very much bnndicauped as I live nearly a hundred miles inland from Nelson. lam, etc., PE OGRESS.

RE If. W. WILSON, A BANKRtTT

(To tho Editor.)

pq r ,—ln your report ot this mooting of creditors the bankrupt has made statements which are injurious to in} company, and absolutely false, to (tie pifcct that we ‘Nought an assignment to ourselves” and Mini I ‘'would take proceedings to have him made a bankrupt unless "it (the assignment) was made to my company.” No such threat «as ever made or suggested, and the exact v-m'ds of mv letter were: “Do you wish us to file a bankruptcy petition or assign your estate? if ihe latter, you must not assign without our consent, or we shall lake' steps in upset any such assignment.” The object o! this was, of course, to prevent, him assigning to any undesirable person whom the creditors iepresenlcd hy us, amounting to L.)/7 out of a total'of £6lO, might, object, (<>, I am, rile.. HENRY WRIGHT, fioverning Director. The Commercial Agency Ltd.