HOUSEHOLDERS' MEETINGS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13972, 19 April 1916, Page 5

HOUSEHOLDERS' MEETINGS.

(To the Editor of tUe Herald.)

Sir,-r-By your kind permission I .would like to express, not only my own, but others' opinions on the interest, or, to bo correct, the lack of inU-resfc taken m tli,.* above mcetmgs. It is, or should be, iiiciimb.ent on those who have children attending school to take some sort of interest m xbnli-blling the manageiuent or Welfare of tho cliildren W that- particular ditfti-ict iii Avhich they reside, yet at tlio householders' meeting held at Makaui-i not a single householder was present except members of thq old Committee, an<l naturally they want to know; how to take-it : is it a coijipliineht to that Committee or disinclination and utter disregard on the paift.-of the' parents who sit at home is, to how the school or its children air* looked after, and I may say there are many avlio are able m tho district to take a ../ihaj-p m its v control, but who, alas, if thiiigs don't, run as. they .should arq^ever ready;,. to,.; ln.\vl; complaints and suggestions at, those who by conscicntioua necessity have undertaken tlie responsibility. I ; hope other .}/ districts have not suffered siich , strikin|f 'disintereHtedncss,.«\especia I ly at .'-such -a time ■Avh'en an epidemic is .rampant and the welfaro r d£ the school and its control require ..tho . time and ..attention of someone. „ tOne yvould tl'inik .that.,, reason alone wpuld wake .then! up to take «ome soii of jnte'rest or share m th.9 spmetimes thankless office of a jCammittee. — I 1 -pi, etc.; > intßresteu.