PRIVATE SCHOOLS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20427, 23 December 1931, Page 13

PRIVATE SCHOOLS.

* TO TUB EDITOR OF THK I'HBSS. - Six, —Mr Ell, in his letter in your •; issue of to-day's date, writes apropos of i. • car financial troubles, that "this is no X time for State aid for our private .1 'schools, even if it were desirable." I ?■ will not discuss the desiraHlity, but I •}' 'should imagine that on account of these %'■ financial troubles this is the very time ' : [ pt all others to consider this question. \¥' 100 scholars were to receive the capitaLi* tion the Education Department's expen-i-1, ditore would be reduced by at least s* hundred thousand pounds. In W'< Qnttfikntßin every school receives the §L-' and the Department is res' Saved of the enormous cost of building |f' and maintaining, many'thousands of J|< schools. • §[■ Stwh.buildings must be built to conJf form So^'Government specifications, the J| be' qualified and certifiS cated'aen and women, their salaries f must be pai& K OiJ the same scale as those of Board school [teachers, and the i scholars moat be examined in,the usual * way bj the Government, inspectors.' In L- ahattxflSSf' secular aspect o£-.'tbV Bchools i By this system 1 money, aitfesawii to the tax- § payers. ' * '/ V : . t \ *" , m hi New Zealand"& Wigld system is i* Jerked upon us, and)ig}lp"wh"o 'pay the ||§|*S>3*!!*»> have no ehoice**ia *calling the iff .IBM* In Great Britain, and "in Ireland, llffifftt taxpayers have this right. ||ifrJ' : ' too am. an. old teacher of both iMirimary and seeondarjgschoolß, and beg Ruin to subscribe myself £»£•' TE KOBQHEKE. fife December 19th, 1931. "•