POINTS OF VIEW

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4423, 9 May 1941, Page 5

POINTS OF VIEW

OPINIONS OF OUR READERS. PARENTS’ ASSOCIATION. Sir, —The above meeting afforded ms much displeasure in certain phases of its conduct. No mention was made ol the services rendered by the retiring President and committee members, one of whom had gone to considerable expense and had given much in donations, time in organisation and ideas toward making the first year of the Association’s activities such a commendable success. While realising that meetings of this kind must be run as business-like as possible, I still believe that simple ethics are, on that point, not to be excluded. I am not conversant with detailed and correct management of a meeting, but even to my inexperienced eye it was obvious that the control of the meeting was most unconstitutional, leaving. I am sure, many others as vague as it left me on certain points raised For instance, it is impossible to grasp in one short address the full consequences, good or bad, of turning an Association into an incorporated society. Many failed even to vote—l presume from the same reason that caused me to refrain from votingthrough not fully understanding the issues involved. I would suggest, then, that members and intending members of the Te Awamutu Parents’ Association acquaint themselves as fully as possible on the subject of changing a friendly and informal association into an incorporated society, with its rules and regulations, and press for a re-committal of the motion at next meeting to test in a formal and unforced way the feelings of an enlightened Association on the subject. Injustices can be rectified without loss of dignity or recrimination, and the future Association safeguarded from bitterness within this organisation, which has, or should have, as its main objective, above all personal feelings, the welfare, modernisation, and advancement of the Te Awamutu Primary and High Schools.—l am, etc., INTERESTED PARENT. THE WAY TO SUCCESS. Sir, —A little more “ school news ” ! Some time ago there appeared a very interesting article in your paper concerning clubs. It has come to my notice that the pupils are dancing during this period in preference to joining your much-discussed and more beneficial Careers Club. Surely a little cadet training should come before this dancing ! Well, perhaps someone m,ay explain how pupils nowadays can dance their way to success ! —.l am. etc.. DISGUSTED.