AUCKLAND COLLEGE AND GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5497, 30 June 1879, Page 6

AUCKLAND COLLEGE AND GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

TO TUE EDITOR. Sir, —In a report of the late meeting of the Board of Governors of the Auckland Colledge and Grammar School, Mr. Heale states that, at Rugby and other similar schools in England, the head-master takes the higher classes. I beg most emphatically to contradict this, and challenge Mr. Healn to provo that thero ia any truth in the statement, l also challenge him to prove that the character o£ the teaching in peneral at the Auckland College and Grammar School is inferior to that received at any of the schools he mentions. The teachers at tho Grammar School are gentlemen of standing and of proved capacity ; and it is but just to them and to their friends that tho truth, and the whole truth too, should be all that is told of them. The reputation of an assistantteacher is his capital, and I hold that the man who deliberately aad unjustly undermines that, is guilty of gross cruelty, and is unworthy of a seat at the Board of Governors of so important an institution a3 tho Auckland College and Grammar School. lam astonished that tho old boys have not come forward and challenged statement after statement that has beeu made at the Board and in tho Press. —I am, &c, A Pobltc School Boy.