A SUGGESTION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 14, 24 July 1885, Page 16

A SUGGESTION.

We have a suggestion to make and we beg to recommend it to the careful consideration of the Canterbury members Parliament. Ninety-eight thousand pounds, for 21 years, are required to secure the building of the Kast and West Coast railway. It is not possible to get this amount by additional taxation ? Our Canterbury friends may rest assured that the country will not stand any additional taxation for such a railway. Our suggestion, then, is that this amount be subtracted from the Education budget. Such a diminution of funds will not in the least interfere with godlessness. The system would under such an arrangement continue substantially as now. The only difference would be that some 25,000 infants under seven years of age would be nursed during the day-time at the expense of the parents instead of that of the country. A new clause in Mr. Stewart's little Bill would do the needful and make Canterbury quite happy. We recommend this suggestion to our neighbours ; and we do so earnestly, because we wish them "well and are desirous of seeing them very happy. The working men, too, if they are wise will hail our suggestion with joy; This little change in the education expenditure would secure the spending of four millions sterling in the country on public works, and would not impair the efficiency of this loved education system. What a chance for the working man and the unemployed. Will they avail themselves of it, and send up petitions to Parliament, asking for this little change in the school system and the four millions expenditure ?