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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 524, 28 October 1890, Page 2

Mr Kelly is now in Auckland. Thera arc nn less than six candidates out for the New Plymouth seat. Mr Kelly was unable to get down from Auckland by Sunday’s steamer, urgent private business having detained him, so that he will not reach Gisborne until next Friday.

At Kawakawa recently Mr Lundon spoke for an hour and a ha'f. almost entirely excluding politics, which he was to touch on at a future meeting. His main object, the telegram says, was to see if he was wanted. There is something in this message which arouses our cu’iosity. Why a Parliamentary candidate wanted to take an hour and a half to ask such a question, h >w he managed' to talk so long concerning himself, and what kind of people are the electors who sat out ’his strummiog on the “ I” note, are questions that we should like to have answered.

Mr J. Greenwood, speaking at Mount Albert, said that school teachers who had been in thd town for over four years should be removed into the country and teachers from the country transferred to their pUoes. That seems to us to be about as ridiculous a proposition as could have been made concerning the education system. It is only fair that teachers in auareely populated districts should he given opportunities of promotion, but the m-»j >riiy of Webers who «re most sacccs-f-il in the large sflliolc would he capable of very indifferent service if sent to small schools where—instead nf utilising ’heir powers of organisation and the tr&iutag of an efficient staff of assistants, besides their ordinary scholastic duties—they would hive to personally conduct nearly all the standards. Mr Greenwood, too, seems to have f jrgotlen the question of salaries.