That Schoolhouse Meeting

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2022, 26 January 1887, Page 2

That Schoolhouse Meeting

To the Editor of the Standard.

Sib,—The school committee, in a way that was dark —like the heathen Chinee —wrote to the Education Board asking that the Bead Master ol the Greytown school should be dismissed. The master knew nothing of it—he was kept in the dark by this honorable body of men—and the Board came to the decision that if matters were not satisfactory at the next examination the master's name should be Walker. When the questionable tactics of the committee got wind in Greytown, the public were surprised and remarks not very complimentary were banded about at the committee’s expense. Smarting under this the committee called a meeting and asked the householders to endorse their action. But the householders were for giving the head master an opportunity of defending himself. He did so and turned the tables upon the committee. With all their wriggling they could not get the public to countenance their peculiar action and a vote of confidence was passed in the master. Now the committee had written to the Board, and the Board had replied saying that the head master should leave the school if the next examination was not satisfactory. As the householders have practically condemned the committee and passed a vote of confidence in the master, I want to know if the committee have withdrawn their letter to the Board, or do they mean to leave matters in the hope that the master may be dismissed at the next examination and the public euchred after all ? I am, &c., Householder.