SALE OF SCHOOL BOOKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 44, 22 February 1926, Page 9

SALE OF SCHOOL BOOKS.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—By your favour, I would like to state for the benefit of fellow storekeepers, an injustice inflicted upon us. I refer to the sale of school books, etc. I am informed on good authority, that headmasters of schools compete in the sale of school requisites with store- J keepers. We have to buy with no return if we cannot sell, whereas the schools (so I am told) can return all not sold. I understand that schools exist to impart instruction, for which we storekeepers, as ratepayers, contribute to the salaries of teachers. Why then this cutting in unfairly upon another's living? Do not the schoolmasters and teachers get good wages and conditions to ensure them a living without competing with tnose whose living is at stake V The Government should certainly protect ratepayers from oppression by public schools at least. It is no joke to have expensive books (on which we are allowed only 10 per cent) left on our hands, especially when they so often become obsolete because of new courses introduced.l am, etc., LIVE, AND LET LIVE.