TENUI NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10019, 15 April 1910, Page 6

TENUI NEWS.

Thursday j The school committee electa ;i, which takes place on the 25t» inn , promises to be very interating. Th.ivare three parties in the field, and are all working hard to win a seat, '.' h conservatives are considered to b~ hopelessly out of the chase, and tha bitter fight will be between the labour party, that' is now in power. and the 'socialists. The labour party claim to have a record credit balance, and also have carried out their promises to the letter, but admit that their chairman was fined for not sending his children to school, which is rather a blot on their party. The

socialists' arguments are that our free education is a socialistic measure, the affairs of the school should be managed by socialists, and that the labour party's large credit balance Is an electioneering dodge, and. also say that as the money was given by the people it should have been spent and gone back to the people, instead of being hoarded up, also that the children have not been entertained at a picnic, which has been the custom for many years. The socialists claim that the laboar party have not carried out the promises to the electors. The socialists.' manifesto is that they will "if elected, incorporate with the school ommitfcce a chamber of commerce and a closer settlement league; the committee will also be an appeal court to finally settle disputes of football, cricket, tennis,, golf and local horse racing.