RE ‘ASMODEUS' IN ‘ROUND THE CORNERS’ ON THE MOUNT COOK SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 852, 29 June 1888, Page 15

RE ‘ASMODEUS' IN ‘ROUND THE CORNERS ’ ON THE MOUNT COOK SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

TO THE EDITOR OE THE NEW ZEALAND MAIL. Sir, —‘ Asmodeus,’ in last Friday’s Mail, in criticising some recent actions of tho Committee, says *he is not going to mince matters’; but, to a very small inodioum of fact he adds what he has heard from one of his familiars, what he is cognisant of, and what he is convinced of, and serves up a very nasty flavored hash. He takes it upon himself to find the Committee guilty, passes sentence on them, and then coolly asks for evidence, aDd whether the Committee is game to publish it, etc. The Committee have done what they considered right and just in the matter alluded to, and in a manner that I believe .‘Asmodeus ’ would have commended had he known all the facts of the case.

‘ Asmodens sympathises with an„unfortunato paper that, he says, tried to do its duty. I hold that the paper in question should not have printed lies, and when convicted of telling ‘whackers,’ should have apologised. Yet another cock and a'bull story. ‘Asmodens ’ tells ns solemnly that a married man had occasionally to pass a certain State school. This ‘ man ’ asserts that a pupil teacher aged fourteen ogled him, and made improper advances to him. This ‘ man ’ could have informed the head mistress, or any member of the School Committee, or even (being a married man) could have cautioned the girl. But no, this something «Asmodeus ’ calls a man, must get hold of a newspaper reporter and staff him—shame on him. The age of fourteen is a giggling age with girls. Many at that age will giggle at a chump of wood, without having the remotest idea of what ‘ Asmodeus’s ’ * man ’ would wish us to believe was intended. Farther than this I do not believe anything could have happened , nor do I think from the sort of fellow he must be, that either of the teachers would touch him with a stable-fork. —I am, etc,, .- 1 J. h, Baoon.