(From the Daily Times.) TO THE EDITOR.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 510, 19 January 1883, Page 13

(From the Daily Times.) TO THE EDITOR.

Sib,— l have read Bishop Moran'a address, and, though not. a Catholic, agree -with him that it is unjust to compel men who educate their own children to pay for the education of other people's. . The existing system of free education is much too costly, and adds largely to the burden of taxation under which we now stagger. For my part, I take it that those who desire the benefit should pay, and think there are few in the Colony who are not in a position to pay'some- . thing for the education of their children, and deem it bard that I am taxed to educate the children of those who are in as good or better circumstances than myself. Some of your contemporaries are advocating the introduction of " immigrants with capital,""b;ut I fear that until taxation is considerably reduced, and, consequently, the excessive cost 1 of nearly everything, immigrants with capital, who as a rule are not anxious to be taxed to death, will fight shy of this Colony. — I am, etc., 1 vM. Dunedin, January 10.