About School Teachers

Sn« the Mtkaretn com** pondent of lli«* Ha>kn ltay Herald : II the »ill filly " Progress " thoi vonldil rvW, H»t» j j>g fooijanum* «m at thy side. The Pah atom Star in a rsry tempo rate article rat- that a Mr* Nelson )>aa l-een appointed to the Pukemiku arluail ■»« assistant ui nlrons because her husband ha* a section near it, while the e-iumiUes de-ore to sse a different j»-i ■*»»•! t|>poiiit*l. 1 may *ay, while the Star u perhaps right not to say lt, that the employment of maimed ■: .1- weii ii- here t» becoming a scandal. Woman who-e hn«band« are in good work a« »: !: n hand* or Otherwise, lake a *rl .-01. The reeult i* that tlie school work i» neglected. tha mi«trem's house «i rty all for greed of money. A i .rr-.d * man e1.0u1.l tirat of all keep her house right, and how can tlie inerrable lathy l<e anything hut a no • if the mother go** to school fr m i'.Stl to 4.0 ? Tlie Star also • jecta to tlie employment of uncerti f« jted teaciiera. saying that a cartam •* i entleuian of wide experience” «-< i.-. left- «ueh persons •• for the most part old A»al>," and that •• tbiur gelt ; tlieir hccraaa raumed from year Ui year -bowed a «mil of mental parity." The whole article is inode rat< an 1 conciliatory, and deserves ii-ore attention than is usually given to tin- opinion* of small country journals. The Mrs Nelson referred U> mint* n, iinrcrtiticaled. but the S>tar lines not allude to tins; an example of the mildness of style refs I red to. I only learned the fact ti in the Gazette. The person desired h tli- committee. Miss Cole, seems to b» E.H. a very reasonably good certi ficate for a girl, if young, especially as ~i.e comas from North Canterbury, when *he would probably learn good ideas of management.
