MISS ANDREWS CASE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10415, 18 July 1895, Page 3

MISS ANDREWS CASE.

TO TUB EDITOR,

Sip—Air iitzgerald has anticipated me in WHn^r mX Tr T?V" iOUr »P»«t of ihur^rJiy, J uioni ImtrtnteprocdiDgi Unfortunately Tm s t nextlUorlllnel)^re I had seen the

I am reported as having said' that " the inmer luMecT"" Vh'ft W* lea ™* »»'S aunjecth. What 1 did; say was that "the inspectors were in the habit of leaving out some clafises in certain subjects." Had I made such a -misstatement as I am credited with, I should certainly have Yen corrected by Someone out of the large number of teachers preset. As a matter of fact all subjcal ■In your account of Friday's meeting the prendent is reported as sayxrig that I overstated the case, and Mr Barnett » reported to have spoken strongly against the niisstaicnieaf which he says I made. Surely, Sir, it would have been more consistent and manly for th« president to W spoken on Ihursday ,f, a S he Bays, I had over! stated the ense. Again, it I made a false state inent, why did not Air Barnett correct it at the time? He is not usually so diffident of speech Had they both to wait till I was absent and an inspector was present, before their righteous indignation found vent? For my part if like i man to "hit, out from the shoulder" and nnf "hit below the belt.";-"'''• ' a not

On -Thursday) in a full meeting, not one word waa said againsfcmy presentation of the case, and the raotion was passed unaniniou<ihi Had my attention' been drawn to any inisstatement of fact, I should at once have corrected* it.—l am, te, G. W. 0. Macdoxald' The Schoolhouse, Otepopo, July 13. [Our correspondent ifcay have intended to =ay what he states, but our reporter is quite confident that the report of the proceedings is correct. The statement made at the meeting by our correspondent was "corrected by someone out of the large number of teachers present," for, as Mr Barnett remarked on the following morning ha ejaculated an emphatic "No." and the reiort shows that that was so.—En. O. D. T,]