TERRACE END SCHOOL.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 152, 13 August 1881, Page 3

TERRACE END SCHOOL.

' TO THE EDITOR. Sib,— l see that Mr. Hayns has been asking our Mayor some questions about neglect of reads at Terrace End, whicb it simply disgraceful. : There is another matter here -which is often talked about, and very little really known about:— •viz., our Ttrrace End school, which Mr. Linton kindly offered to see about some years ago. If you remember, the residents were asked by the Education Board to subscribe one-half the cost of the site, and the Board would give the remainder, and provide funds for the erection of a School. This is. as I understood it. is one of the residents, I thought it was a good chance, and I •would willingly have subscribed my . share. Since then we heard that Mr. Linton had succeeded m getting this si*e, two acres, from the Government as a free gift. Is this so. ? We were likewise informed that our member for the Education Board was goJng to interest himself greatly about funds for this school— although a good many hert knew very well he would not do so, if he could possibly help it, his policy being to add to the school at the other end of the town, instead of trying to get funds for the erection of a school here, however humble the structure might be. lam m the habit of reading the report of the Education Board, but I. do not see a word about Terrace End school. Perhaps since Mr. Linton became chairman of the Palmerston School Committee he • tbmks it is the best policy to pull with the member for the time being, and feaves his neighbors out m the cold. Still I cannot think it is Mr. Linton's intention, as he well knows a school here jsab/ointely needed, and which, when *pPt,-./vill be filled to overflowing. Another reason why I cannot think the neglect is Mr. Linton's, is because I know ; wh / n he tak.es any matter up, either pub- ' i lcl ? privately, he is not easily- driven i from hw position. This matter was ! taken upby W and a resolution brought forward by him m the School Committee and <arned "that a school was reallvne- ? cesssxy. at Terrace End ;• that the Board '; Masked to vote funds for its erection" I Ibw was done during, Mr. BalrympleV term as our member (I think), and he drd all he could for us, but since his retirement we appear to. have been for-gotten.-Hoping I have not trespassed too much on your patience, or valuable fpace, iior given any possible offence to W\ Linton.— l am, &c. Schooi,.