A CLEAR CASE OF OFFICIOUSNESS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1200, 20 February 1880, Page 2

A CLEAR CASE OF OFFICIOUSNESS.

; The following correspondence which has passed between the Secretary to the Edupation Board and the Duntroon School Committee has been ordered to be published :

To E. M. Sunley, Duntroon. : Sir, —In looking through your Comhiittee's statement of receipts and expenditure, I notice the sum of LlO was expended as salary for the clerk. I must request that you will inform me whether your Committee intend to continue this payment, as, if so, I must lay the matter before the Board. The full capitation allowance paid to your Committee annually is not more than double that amount, and I cannot look upon such an expenditure but as a misappropriation of public money. Surely who would do the comparatively trifling work of the Committee "for less than LlO a year. uy - : * - '-IP. -G. P-utdeV f

'P. Gk. Pryde, Esq. . . . ¥ ' Sir,—l' am instructed by : the 'Duntroon School Committee. ,tq inform ~y.ou that they have "consfdferecl your ' the '6th-Feferuaryv aiid- that cariEot'-tiut regard your accusation of having " misappropriated public money" as 'a' piece of gratuitous imperfcineiice and, further, that the : 'C'ommitl«e i 'deriy' "your 'right io interfere with-'th'eit-' disposal 'of- funds ■raised by themselves. The total amount received I 'from the IDducatibii' Board-last year was^L2B-ss,,aiiid; the: Geminittee: expended on school : Fuel and cleaning, L 6 Ss-';-'repairs' property;Ell : 12s 6d ;' stationery, stamps, • &c., L2_. 83 ; cheque-book, 2s Id ; excavating closet, LI- ss:;-Tstb.ve/'L6 17;S'J s'hovelj.rls (3d.; grate,; LI-10?,; irailage, 2s 9d ; f totalj LSI Is 9d-r-thus.ex-pendiii'g ' on' sc'hblDl : Ij2 16'9d' more"than was received Ndn'o of the subsidy received from the Education Board was expended on,_qlerk'9 salary.—l have, &c., R. M. StrNLEY, Sec. D.S.C.