SNEER AT PUBLIC SCHOOL

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2303, 4 September 1929, Page 7

SNEER AT PUBLIC SCHOOL

“SONS OF PAWN BROKERS AND PORK BUTCHER'S -The Duke of Connaught, who was accompanied by tlgi Earl of Derby and the Duke of Wellington, presided at ‘ Wellington College Speech Day in England recently. The headmaster, Air Alaliin, said a- woman, whose sou had been unsuccessful at the common entrance examination, had made the allegation that Wellington College no longer took the sons of officers of the Army and Navy ,but only the sons of pawnbrokers and pork butchers. He had made an analysis of the boys of the school, and found that 879 were the sons of Army officers, nineteen thb sons of naval officers, three the isons of Air Force officers. There were tints 40l out of 'just,'-over 600 boys who were sous of officers of the three great services. Of the others, twenty four were sons of lawyers, ninteou the soufj of doctors, and twenty-two the sons of members of the Imperial Services. He could not find' one of those two great callings, pawnbrokers or pork butcher!/, The Duke of Can naught said lie regretted to find that there waft.a disinclination among parents to send their boys into the Army as a profession. He *avi<l he quite understood this, owing to the heavy taxation and tuo high, cost of living.