MR WEBB’S SPEECH AND THE PROGRESSIVE LIBERALS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — However sore Mr Webb may be at the abolition of bis Board, 'it is strange that he cannot see what is so plain to everybody else. The matter lies in a nutshell. Mr Webb and bis Board wore entrusted with the administration of a High School subsidised by the State. They have sat still all these years and allowed it to be used as a preparatory school for the little children of the-upper classes. They have allowed children to be admitted even from the second standard, and have increased the stall of teachers and enlarged the buildings, not so much to cope with the increase of tbo legitimate work of tho school as to enable the upperclasses to get their children educated with tho taxpayers’ money. No doubt Mr Webb lias never properly realised this; but the taxpayers have. Hence their determination to have a Board that will see things with taxpayers’ eyes.—l am, &c., JUSTICE.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 11152, 29 December 1896, Page 6
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