THE CHILDREN'S FETE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2517, 22 May 1895, Page 3

THE CHILDREN'S FETE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —The movement of His Worship the Mayor to provide the children of the poorer classes with a day’s enjoyment is worthy of the highest commendation, for generally speaking the mind of the head of the Civic Fathers is so engrossed with a water, gas, or drainage scheme that those trilling yet thoughtful matters are lost sight of. May he succeed in hia worthy endeavour! A great deal has been said of the apathy of the clergy in not attending the meetings, but I think there is another class more culpable//!/,., the teachers in our public schools. .Seeing that in the average attendance, upon which teachers’ salaries are based, that class of children count as well as those of better-off parents, could not the teachers or somo of them show a little sympathy with tho movement and so materially assist His Worship and his kind-hearted coadjutors—the ladies —in their very laudable efforts to mixniniso the suffering by increasing tho pleasure of tho juveniles ? Trusting that the 24th will see the Basin Reserve filled with bright and joyous laces, and that the Queen's Birthday of 1895 will be but a precursor of those to follow on which tho children of the poor, whose enjoyments are few in number, may have a gala day, I nrn, &c., Robin Adair. 20th May, 1805.