JUSTICE TO THE OUT-DISTRICTS IN THE MATTER OF EDUCATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4460, 29 February 1876, Page 5 (Supplement)

JUSTICE TO THE OUT-DISTRICTS IN THE MATTER OF EDUCATION.

To the Editor of the Herald.

Sib, —Now that the general elections are over, it is my desire to draw the attention of onr representatives to the above subject; and let me hope that all of them have made up their minds that when they go down to the Assembly, after they have settled the Constitutional matters, they will at once go in for a colonial scheme of education, which will be supported from the general chest. "When we consider the posieion in which we, as a province, have been placed in the past, in having to strive to get our youth educated, having all to pay the tax, equal justice is not meted out to the out-districts. Some have school-houses built for them; others have had rents paid to denominations to allow the schools to be carried on in their respective churches; others have had their . schools carried on in one of the denominational churches, and their School Committeeß have applied, year after year, f or aidtokeep the house in repair. In Pukekohe East, , this has : been done in the paat, and they have always had [the answer of '' no. funds.".. No w that the Board has funds, I hope, that the Committee will apply ; and when the Board Is so

I generous as first to build a school-house for I our district, and then promise to largely help to erect a teacher's house in the same, they (the Board) surely cannot have the audacity to refuse to hold out a helping hand. There are about twelve members of * the* " Presbyterian body in this district. Sir, is it just to ask these twelve to keep up a ;Bahool-house for an entiro district? This is not the doings, of the Provincial Government, • but the doimjs of the Board of Education, which contains such gentlemen as Mr. Luckie, -who professes to stand up for our weal. Such as him have been tried in the balance, and found wauting.—lam, &c., A. MCDoxau?. " r *. Pukekohe Valley, February' '2S, ISli).