THE EDUCATION TAX.
To the Editor of the Hebald. | Sib, —It was with pleasure I read the letter of " B. 0. G. B." on the above tax, and also the plucky way in which he distinctly statea that he will not pay. Allow me to say that there ore many of the same opinion. Ab for myself, I shall never pay one iota in cash to the Government, —let them di3train. The manifest injustice of this tar is so apparent, I that I think all that is necessary for the people
to do 13 to call a public meeting, and dare the Provincial Government to attempt to put it into execution. Let this be done by all means; und also at the ensuing election let the repeal of the tax be made the battle-cry at the hustings. If we do this we shall soon weed the Provincial Council of members who wish to press an obnoxious and unjust measure on the community. Trusting that something may be done in this matter, and concluding in the words of the late Monialambert, " The State can have a right of offering a national education, but it can have no right to impose it." —l am, &c, ~ Beta.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume X, Issue 2792, 9 January 1873, Page 3
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