Featherston School Committee Election.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue XX, 6 May 1887, Page 2

Featherston School Committee Election.

To the Editor of the Standard. Sib, —Your correspondents, “ Mephistopheles ” and “ Let Justice be Done,” show in a very amusing manner how nicely the cap fits all round. If anything more were required to prove the correctness of the general verdict that larrikinism was at the bottom of the whole affair their puerile wordy effusions would settle that point. “Let the galled jade wince ” Mr Mephistopheles. You may personate the Devil in red, but I rather fancy you are the gentleman in blue, with a searlet stripe down your unmentionables, just to give you a dash of the old man. There is no man better known in Featherston for bis strictly honest, upright, probity of character than yourself, and it certainly was a great pity that, out of pique, you should have so far forgotten yourself as to turn traitor, go over to the enemy, gallantly lead the forlorn hope and carry the breach, with the 83rd Die-hards, at the point of the magical number seven. My letter, sir, seems to have hit a few gentlemen very hard, but I am quite satisfied to take any amount of abuse from such as your correspondents “ Mephistopheles,” and “ Let Justice be Done.” I think they will find me a very hard nut to crack indeed, for I will always, to the best of my ability, bring before the public through the press or otherwise any* thing I consider should be exposed, as but for the publicity allowed by the press, many times there would be no other way of redressing grievances. And furthermore, no intimidation,personal or otherwise, will ever prevent me from doing what 1 consider my duty, in any public or private capacity in which 1 may be placed. Apologising for the length of my letter. 1 am, &c., Fiat Justitia. Featherston, May 4.

To the Editor of the Wairarapa Standard. Sib, —That election of a certain resident to the school committee here a week ago, seems to have milled tho hair of some of the other members. One would imagine by tbeir squall that such committees were specially constituted to enable them to display their wonderful talent. The thing was done evidently to let them see what can bo done. One of the members was heard to say that hr went in on purely selfish grounds, to see that his children were properly looked after. Who does this hit? Some have said that it is an insult to tho head master to put such a man on the committee as tho one some take exception to, but for tho life of me I cannot by any stretch of imagination see it in that light. How can that be ? Do those members who think thus mean that it is because the objectionable person knows less than the head master. If such is their idea 1 can only say that if each of tho committee knew ten times as much as they do (and that would not amount to much with some of them), the master would then be body, bead and shoulders above the whole blooming lot put together. 1 can only say, sir, that it is a very great pity that “Fiat J ustitia ” did nutlet the matter pass and say nothing about it, for all his puffing and blowing about it could not alter the result, and it only dis-

pW» mother instance of that craving desire to be head and tail of everything going of a public character. I am, Ac., Per Interim. Peatherston, May 3,1887.