CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8406, 6 November 1890, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

WANTED, A SAVIOUR— G. GREY. TO THE KDITOK. Sir, —There are many who malign the only saviour the colony can look to at tbe present time. I ask you, sir, whether tha last speech of Sir G. Grey was not a masterly exposition of the true state of the colony ? Was it not a fiscal as well as an oratorical triumph ? Figures for everything ! There ie no doebt, according to Sir George's elaborate and careful statement of figures, of the amount a land tax will produce when the obnoxious property tax is repealed, an/i as to whotlier or not an income tax will also be required, etc. Ye horrid Bryce ! to tell us that we must depend upon such unpoetic virtues as economy, retrenchment, and hard work, and ye horrid Vailes and Kirkbrides ! to dare to ask irrelevant! questions, when here is Sir Magician, a wave of whose wand will restore prosperity. Now, sir, what I wish you to advocate is another Grey phalanx composed of men of the immaculate character of Mr. W. L. Reesmen who have shown great capacity in the management of feheir own affairs— men who can afford to Riinff oat in a few glib words such plain practical nuisances aa him they style " Honest John Bryce." Though discarded for years, let us show that Sir George is to the fore again, and let us refute the base calumny that Destroy his fib or sophistryin vain ! Sir Geois;e is at his dirty work again. Help on the noble work, establish the purity and disinterestedness of our hero, and lo at his next great meeting the magic wand will be waved.—lam, etc., G.O.H. CRIBBING IN SCHOOLS. TO THE EDrTOK. Sir, —A " Primary Schoolteacher " calls in question my assertion that cribbing is encouraged in our schools by some of the teachers at inspectors' examinations. In reply, I merely invite this primary gentleman or lady to enquire from some of the senior pupils of the large schools if cribbing is a common thing at examinations, and if they are punished for it? An inspector would indeed have to be smart to stop or prevent it, considering he has to examine pupils in six or seven rooms in two or three days. He would have to bo smarter than a certain headmaster of my acquaintance, who informs me that since the reduction of the staffs of assistants he has had to stand in the doorway between two rooms, and conduct the teaching in both.—l am, etc., Teacher. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Your correspondent, " A Primary School Teacher," in to-day's issue, tries to bluff a teacher's remarks in Saturday's issue re." handing round answers surreptitiously " in public school examinations. It would astonish "A Prims.*y School Teacher" to hear the remarks made v by pupils, upon their return home, aiter an examination. He might learn a wrinkle. Nay, I will go further. I know that it is done. I have heard a teacher boost thab " he looks up his old pals " for hints re examiner's "fade, oddities and peculiar eccentricities." It is no secret in the profession that inspectors' methods, crotchets and "catches" are freely discussed, and that inspectors' questions are exchanged. How it is done, I leave these gentlemen to find out. Who can blame teachers .when they know and feel, as some have done, that their professional character—ah ! and " bread "depends upon t-ho word "Good " or '• Bud," in the inspector's report ; particularly if that teacher happens to be in his bad books*. This is no imaginary idea. It is, alas ! too true.—l am, &c., Another Tkaoheb (Certificated). November 5, IS',lO.

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