Correspondence.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 1342, 8 January 1879, Page 3

Correspondence.

THE WAI-ITI SCHOOL. TO THE EDITOB OV THE TIJIABU HEBALD. SlB, — Permit me to trouble you once more and make a few remarks on Mr Kelland's letter which appears m your paper this morning. Truly Mr Ktlland must have been afraid of his miß-Btatem«nts being rebutted when he delayed answering my lust until the day before the Board bits. Allow me to teil him that I am an oWer inhabitant m this cli«trict than he himself, and know every ep»t of it, and I defy him to point out a Bingle inaccuracy m the statements I made about the children on this side of the bridge, so that his reason is apparent for saying nothing about (hem. If I was m error about Mr Graham's children, which has yet to be proved — seeing that at I be preeent time he has but three children at his lioubo, though he Btates he expecis another to como from the North shortly — there were many more wrong statements m the list Mr Kelland published. For instance, unless Mr Ivey be a servant of his living m tho house with him, he does not exist. Again, he stated Mr Ellison lived within two miles '.of Graham's Bite when he has lived for years near Mr Archer's, and Mr Whitaker never lived on that road at all, and had before that sold his (arm to the same Mr Gardner mentioned, who by-the-bye has but one child instead of two as stated. Again, Mr Kelland stated that Messrs Green and Lack on the Olaromont ■ Road had eight children, and now he says there are but seven. In his former letter he stated there were twenty-two families within two miles, and new he brings them down to fourteen. If the school were built on the Wai-iti, there is plenty of area for a school on Gosling's road. We feel we are quite cafe m leaving the Board to measure the distance ; and we are quite sure that if Mr Granger had not been deceived by misrepresentations — as were the. people on Gosling's road — our school Bite would have been settled last month, and we ourselves sparer! milch trouble and anxiety. The people on Go&lingVroad are unanimous iD saying that when signing the protest, they knew a school on Graham's cite could be of no use to them, but they did not wish to disoblige. They regret doing so now, and a petition will be presented to the Board tomorrow with five or six of their signatures attached ; and we have the good wishes of,the rest, as they thought it would not look well to sign against, what they had so recently signed for. I will feel it a great obligation if you -will kindly publish this m the Herald tomorrow. I am, &c., Echo. Jan. 7th, 1879. [We have taken the liberty of erasing one rery objectionable, because personal, paragraph m this letter. We think the correspondence had better cease now.— Ed. T.H-1 J