TO THE EDITOR.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 38, 3 September 1892, Page 9

TO THE EDITOR.

vSir,—There is a " shmall little" district, "well, say in Mars, which, educationally 'speaking, is.very, large for its size, and has made itself famous on the annals »of the Board of Education for the •masterly way in which it handles its Three really nice young men, -during their respective sojourns there, "•were rendered in someway or other * hopelessly insane. The first of these -wrote a heartbreaking letter to the ißoard and the Committee imploring :to be l'emoved. As one reason he,stated that he was staying in a private '""domicile that only owned one earthenware basin, serving for all—or.-.nearly - all domestic purposes. Unto that family ~ a child was born and its'.'maiden -ablutions were duly performed in this versatile dish. : This budding Mentor, f< however, came hurriedly to the con- -: elusion that he was "but a stranger there and heaven was his home, when "an hour or so afterward -he perceived \tiie 'mdnthly. nurse making scones in that "useful bowl. There were then - alarums and excursions and exit first *- pedagogue. The second of this trio—l it was the second—was a small * German doctor—an amiable youth in '• ..brass; spectacles-—who was apparently He -loved botany and fair ' women. The'former he wrote essays -about for the Auckland -Institute, '< prettily bespangled with Latin. ,As regarded the latter it is recorded that <he never, told.his love but let conceal(inenfc like a codlin moth in the blossom * feed on his damask cheek 1. I believe he did, however, once ask a certain "florid daraozel for permission to ~" kiss her arm, 11 which was certainly 'like his damask cheek. One of his achievements, too, was to endeavour to ~ illuminate a tabernacl-e owned by one "'Ca'rolinus O'Nashius with electric 'light. This was attended with disastrous results. He th en left to go "to foreign parts, being unable to stand the climate. Nothing would suit No. 3 but to strip himself to the 'buff, one cold night and wonder forth 'to play 1 Orson, or the wild man of the 'Woods, and in this plight was he •discovered, A court martial sat on him consisting of the local School Committee. ,■ Nothing wilLeven efface ;fr6m tD.y.-';'memory that look on the poor beggar's.'face when :the Ohair*man commenced in a re-assuring way and in thunderous tones, " Er—Mr-

they tell me that you are mad !" They do say that these poor dear mcD were all driven to thes« straits by certain good and probably vwell meaning ladies of that "distant place. Now, after this, .in that same remote sphere, they received -another teacher and have lately done their best to make ~~^'Mm mad also. They put up (heir children to insult him, they insulted •him themselves, —some of them—they "kept their' children home so that they *could not possibly learn, and they then the school teacher with not them. -I think Mr .Editor

that that teacher, like Mr Weller, could say, " Oh, Samiv^l, Samivel, yy vorn't there a halibi," for you can't possibly be guilty of not teaching children when they are not there to be taught. In conclusion, trusting that you will, pardon this -long letter, I must say -that under the circumstances the people living in 'this particular district should not be allowed to have' a teacher for their school at all till know h.ow to treat one. IToura, >&c./ " ■ ' ":■ 'W X WISEHEAD.