MONEY GRUBBERS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17199, 20 June 1916, Page 3

MONEY GRUBBERS.

TO THE IDITOR.

Si rr _On behalf of a few hundred underpaid working men of this city, I wish to protest against the actions of .some of. our school teachers for the manner in which they try to extort money from the children. Anyone who has tried to live and bring up a family of children on* a labourer's pay for instance, will realise _ what a struggle it is- to bring a family up decently on so small nvi income. Now add to this like continual begging that is going on. On tlio job tho box ia poked under your nose. In the streets, the boxes aro following you everywhere. And now in the schools the teachers are using methods that I would like to use swear word.s to describe, but I want this letter published if possible. Any teacher who will brand a child because its parents are unable to giro it money for the box is, to say the least, contemptible. I don't want to name the school yet. hut if it continues we shall be comoelled to adopt other means to stop "it. Perhaps a nod sas good as a wink? "Will you tip them the nod, sir?—l am, etc., E. J. HOWARD. Trades Hall, June 10.