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“ A memorial to the General Board subscribed by the parents of forty-two of the forty-six children in attendance declared 'the master had their full confidence, not only as efficient, painstaking and impartial, but as exercising a good influence on the children's minds far beyond that of the ordinary Colonial masters, and that the School Committee represented neither their feeling or opinions.' Now mark the action of the General Board. ”

“ A week after the arrival of the Local Committee's recommendation and before the Colonial Secretary could return from the South—they held a special meeting and endorsed the Committee's recommendation, and appointed, as master to the scarcely vacant post, one of the older boys of the Government School at Perth. ”