THE NEWMARKET SCHOOL INQUIRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11366, 8 May 1900, Page 3

THE NEWMARKET SCHOOL INQUIRY.

TO TUE EDITOR. * Sir, Your report of tho Newmarket school inquiry reveals a very unhappy state of affairs. | Teachers evidently aro afraid of the Hoard's proviso re canvassing, and consequently to not actually solicit votes, but some of those so favourably circumstanced as to bo within call mako a point of visiting tho members of committee, and no doubt of talking incidentally of their influence with Ministers of the Crown, of their personal sacrifices in "the cause of education, and in tho interests of tho district they wish to serve. Surely the Board can manage its own business without the necessity of teachers, so bemoaning themselves as to go dodging round, hunting up evidence against a brother teacher. I always understood that professional men showed esprit do corps, and that ono of the objects of tho Teachers' Institute was to encourage such. I hope most sincerely that the promotion scheme before the Board will become law, and then tho necessity of canvassing either directly or indirectly will bo obviated, and promotion will'go by merit.—l am, oto., Howard J. S. Ellis. Maungatawhiri, May 5, 1900. [Tho regulation against canvassing for appointments is necessary for many reasons, Teachers may be candidates who are in another district, and who, if canvassing is allowed, are at a disadvantage. A teacher who is proved to havo canvassed, and sc to have broken the rule, should bo disqualified.— Ed.]