AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 33, 13 December 1873, Page 9

AUCKLAND.

(Prom our own -correspondent) ■We are now in the thick of our Provincial Council elections. Nothing •very noticeable, except that the present educational arrangements are admitted to be a dead failure, financially if not in other ways. The Mayor, one of the candidates, and a leading secularist, said " he supported the Education Act in the Provincial .Council, but experiencen cc liad proved during the past year 'that 'it was "not in its present sliape of ■» workable character." Could anything else be expected of a measure -so arbitrary and unjust'? Gross injustice never stands permanently, and is sure 'to be resisted — and resisted by strong measures, too — at times. The annual sum which it was intended to collect was £13,000 j they could only squeeze £7000 out of the pockets of the people. They at first summoned many, who of course had to pay ; but they have ceased to summon of late, either because they saw the case was hopeless, or because they were ashamed of the unjust work in which they -were engaged. They could not for shame's sake bring a great poportion — perhaps a great majority — of the inhabitants of the Province into Court to extort an unjust tax from them. So much for secular education in Auckland up to the present. We shall see what we shall see next. No thanks to our so-called liberal Press if the present unjust system come to a speedy end, and be replaced by something zaore just and generous. They have dene their best or worst to perpetrate the wrong.