CORRESPONDENCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1912, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

STATE SCHOOLS. TO TUB EDITOK. Sir,— Seeing that the election of State School Committees takes place on Monday night, I would like to bring under the notice of your readers two matters. One is that the cleaning of State schools should not be given to wives of committeemen. The husband has a right to sit on a. committee, and help to fix her salary, and see such, work is carried out properly. Surely it would be far better to give it to those who are- in need of a little help and wHb can hardly make ends meet. There are plenty of deserving cases around us, where • sickness and lost time have been badly felt, and where the money would do more good than in the homes of public servants and men in constant employment. The second is that the committees often buy things for the schools from shops of fellow-membei*s ; such Durchases, if made at an outside shop, would perhaps be done at less cost, as they could try and drive a bargain far better with a stranger than with one of their own committee. — I am, otc, HELP THE WEAK. 20th April.