CORRESPONDENCE.

Colonist, Volume XIII, Issue 1339, 26 July 1870, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

WAKEFIELD EDUCATION BATE.

To the Editor of the Colonist.

Sib, —I am about to make (with your permision) a rather unusual complaint, that is of the extreme economy of our Provincial Government in collecting the education rate at Wakefield and Fox Hill.

Westward of the cart-bridge over the Eightyeight Valley stream, just past the junction of the Fox Hill and Eighty-eight Valley roads lies about four miles of main trunk road, say up to Mr. Wagstafi''s Inn ; abutting or adjoining this four miles of road are about forty-five houses, and we may presume forty-five ratepayers; these forty-five ratepayers are warned to go to Spring Grove on the 2nd of August, to pay their education rates, each man making a'journey ranging from seven miles out and seven miles back, to about three miles each way. On the other hand, placing a ratecbllecter in the centre of the said four miles of road, would roduce the distanoe to be travelled by each of these men to two miles each way for the longest journeys, and say 100 yards for the shortest journey, that is an average of little more than a mile each way, thus saving our neighbors abput 360 miles of travelling. I am, &c, Thoiui J. Hurra. ( W»k#fl.ld, July 15, 1870.