Education. Board Affairs. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Volume 02, Issue 2420, 2 August 1900, Page 44

Education. Board Affairs. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, — Referring to the board's last meeting to the report of the" "select"' committee signed Henry Harraway, Donald Borrie, and Alex. Kyle, also to Mr Donald Borrie'sr false and elandefous attack on me,- delivered when he knew my mouth was closed and had no right of reply, and also &>_my letter to the district high school committees, I have, after consideration, come to the conclusion that I owe it to the audiences I addressed and to myself simply as a reputable colonist, to give a full answer to the attacks made on me, in order that the public may know the reason why, when a man is serving the cause of education to the best of his ability, he is denounced" as a calumniator. Accordingly, I am making arrangements to answer Mr Donald Borrie, " chairman of the Waitaki High Schools, at his own door. The good people of Oamaru have heard me before,, and I think, tfetil better informed, they will hardly yet credit that it has fallen to the lot of Mr Donald Borrie to unmask a villain. I intend to deliver addresses at Oamaru, Palmerston, Port Chalmers, Milton, Lawrence, Balclutha, and, later on, at other centres of the province. The tactics employed at last meeting are not going to crush me; and although I have at present almost single-handed undertaken a tolerably heavy task, I shall not cease jay efforts till I get the people to petition for the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the conduct of its affairs by the Otago Education Board, and into the truthfulness of its official information; and before any court or committee that Parliament may set up I am prepared' to appear in support of any allegations 'I have made or may bring forward. Some' effort ought to be made to find out why this. Education Board so largely fails of its functions, and, notwithstanding the many able and devoted men who have sat at the table, is, with too brief internals, so often the humiliation and scandal of the province. — I am, etc., ' P. B. FRASEB. Lovell's Flat, July 26.

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