Government (Mr, N. L. Smith), in whose presence these remarks were made, contented himself with suggesting that Mr. Sargent, as a member of the Board of Education, would have ample opportunity of voicing his grievances before that body. Incidentally he somewhat gratuitously, as a correspondent expressed it, made a reference to the Press in this con-méction, saying that the wspaper columns were all very well for discussing, suggested donkey-rides at Repulse Bay beach, or ZBW radio programmes, but that school curricula "gre a technical matter, which may well be left to the representative Board whose main concern they are."
The correspondent mentioned resented, this. observation, contending that wisdom on educational matters is, not solely concentrated in the Board of Education, and submitting Yhai there are many people in the Colony well qualified express opinions on such matters. "In the absence of any representative form of government in: this Colony," the Writer added, "The Press performs a most valuable function in opening its columns, both for correspondence and for special articles, to the views of.such individuals." And, as a final dig,-he concluded: "When matters of public concern are ventilated through the columns of the Press, they do at least attract immediate attention; left to the proper quarters they might easily get no further than the pigeonhole."
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