Community service grants
Sir, — I would like to know how Cr Helen Garrett defines the “working class,” and by what criteria and from which data she is able to assert that few “workers” attend the courses of the Canterbury W.E.A. However, I can assure her that regretfully students do pay a major share of the costs of tuition and administration, and pay more than they would for activities organised by other agencies directly funded through the Department of Education. In this sense, the user does pay, and to a degree that makes the coaxing of reluctant learners difficult. We welcome the council’s acknowledgment, through its grant, of the social benefit of the W.E.A.’s communityoriented courses to the people of Christchurch. — Yours, etc., R. B. KEEY. ‘South Island Vice-Presi-dent New Zealand Workers’ Educational Association. August 13, 1978.
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