EDUCATIONAL.
Mr J. L. Innes, a talented young teacher who recently arrived in Auckland from Scotland, was married last week to Miss Peterson, of Grafton Road. Mr Upton is the able and special champion of the town teachers, and he has so far protected their large salaries from diminution. Cut down, hew or haok every other salary, or any other interest ; but upon the salaries of the dear • higher teaohers,' as on the Ark of the Covenant, lay neither hand nor finger. Such is his ruling principle, and pity it is so. At a reoent meeting of the Mount Roskill School Committee, a member made the remark that Mr Upton ought not to be on the Board of Education. Thereupon another member added— 'And Mr Carr is not fit to be on the Board either.' Both were probably right, though it is rather rough on Carr to be condemned in his own district. The proposed naw Truant School is a sore point with the Board of Education. A sohool costing £1,350, when'there is already ample accommodation for all the children in the city, is too big an abuse for the Board to perpetrate, so they will try and smuggle it through at half the estimated cost. Even our tatterdemalion Board stands aghast at the gross illegality of building a Eagged School from funds provided for a free, unseotarian system of national education.
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Observer, Volume X, Issue 604, 31 January 1891, Page 9
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232EDUCATIONAL. Observer, Volume X, Issue 604, 31 January 1891, Page 9
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