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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 29, 13 November 1885, Page 3

Avoid the harsh, irritating, griping compounds so often sold as purging medicines, and correct the irregularities of the bowels by the use of Ayer'a Cathartic Pills, which are mild and gentle, yet thorough and searching, in their action. Possibly n largely increased tax levy on account of the schools may stir up the public to inquire more seriously as to the working of the system of education wbich costs so many millions annually. As it is now, it is astonishing how little is known about the schools and their practical conduct, although their expenses have increased to 4>ooo.ooodols. a year, and must rapidly become greater. Are the School Commissioners pursuing the most economical and efficient method* ? Do they give the most dssirable education for the majority of the pupils ? Are the schools fulfilling the purpose for which they were established, or are they forcing the children under a uniform system of instruction which the people never intended to set up f Tbeseare questions which have been often discussed in the Sun. aud the radical defects of tbe common school education have been pointed out by us for years past. Yet the Board of Education goes.on with. oat reform and without change, and the evils become more and mor% serion*, the cost greater and greater. How long will the people stand this indifference to palpable defects ? How long will they go on payiog for a sort of education for which the demand is only slight, while the great majority fail to get the training they need for success in life ? We hardly believa that it will be much longer, for the burden iR becoming so heavy that those wbo pay must toon cry oav.— /Vta Tori $**, r