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Patea & Waverley Press FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1928 THE EDUCATION BOARD ELECTION.

THE result of the election of a representative of the Wanganui urban area of the Wanganui Education Board’s ' district should serve as a wholesome lesson to enthusiasts that the public are alive to the folly and danger of encouraging sectional representation on any public body. In Mr. Collins the people of the Wanganui education district have an ideal representative and a good chairman. During the years he has occupied the latter position he has given of his best in the cause of education, and has carried out his duties as chairman on all oc-

easions with justice, wisdom, and tact. In no way whatever has he ever been parochial. The needs of a school at Palmerston North or at Taihape have invariably received the same amount of attention at his hands as would those of a school in the district which he represented. No matter was ever too small or" too" great for him to give his personal attention to, and again and again to our personal knowledge he has gone out of his way, at great inconvenience to himself, to-attend to matters that the ordinary chairman would have left to others or passed by altogether.. Having served the householders of the Wanganui education district faithfully and well for over 12 years, it would not have been out of place to have acknowledged his valuable services by granting him an unopposed return. However, a certain section of the community, obsessed with the overwhelming importance of the cause they advocated, sought fit to endeavour to oust Mr. Collins from his position and elect a nominee of their own in his place. In other words, Mr. Collins’ ripe experience and knowledge of * the needs of the various schools and his 12 years of faithful service were to count for naught, because, forsooth, he insisted that the law as it stands should be obeyed. There is small wonder that the people of .'Wanganui showed their resentment of those who were ungenerous and ungrateful enough to overlook Mr. Collins’ work and the. valuable services rendered by him by returning him by an overwhelming majority. The action of the enthusiasts will, we hope, remind them that the public are on the whole fair-minded, and are not inclined to overlook valuable ser.io:f ‘pa.iapua.t uoofj pm[ pn[j saonv the sake of fostering any cause how-ever good. Sectional representation on any public body is strongly to be deprecated for obvious reasons.

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Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 3 August 1928, Page 2

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Patea & Waverley Press FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1928 THE EDUCATION BOARD ELECTION. Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 3 August 1928, Page 2

Patea & Waverley Press FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1928 THE EDUCATION BOARD ELECTION. Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 3 August 1928, Page 2