SCHOOL BOOKS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir.—ln to-niight's 'Star' "Parent" takes up the question of the price of school books. I quite agree with "Parent" as to the price of school books, and also the. quantity iised by children. Today I had"to purchase five softcovered exercise books and one stiff-covered exercise book, and these for only on© child. What) on earth ho is- going to do with the books is a mystery. From what I can gather the slate is very little used (if at all) nowadays, the extra exercise books taking -the place thereof. Then again it is necessary to purchase a penny note book and two or three scribbing blocks—ordinary paper to take notes of homework i>j not allowed. The fact is, sir, it's buy, buy all the time. It, would be interesting to know who is benefiting by the school books. Is it the bookseller, the inspectors, or whom? I think the time has arrived when the question of school books should be more closely looked into. It is scarcely the "free education" that is looked for, especially ax. this particular time.—l am, etc-, Pater. February 9.
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Evening Star, Issue 16034, 10 February 1916, Page 6
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