WANTED, FREE EDUCATION!
[To the Editor.] Sib,—l see the Hastings Literary and Debating Society, which is reported to have been such a gigantic success last season, are in a bad way because the Borough Council have declined to find them a rent free hall •for their meetings, and so deprive the owners of halls who pay heavy licenses to the Council of their income. Besides the theatre, there are four halls which pay a yearly license, and they have enough to do to make ends meet. The cry that the society is an educational one*fe all very fine. I am given to understand that the members comprise many lawyers, doctors, merchants and others who are reported to have had a tolerably fair education, and surely at their time of life they don't want the townspeople of Hastings to provide them with a second edition free. Their argument that the society is not a money-making concern would apply just as well to any of the ten friendly societies which have lodges in Hastings, or all the athletic and other clubs whose members wish to hold meetings from time to time. Surely the members of a society which is such a gigantic success can afford a penny or twopence per week and pay their way, instead of begging for free education. X am, &c., Licensed H at t -,
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Hastings Standard, Issue 318, 10 May 1897, Page 2
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226WANTED, FREE EDUCATION! Hastings Standard, Issue 318, 10 May 1897, Page 2
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