WALTHAM SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18237, 22 November 1924, Page 6

WALTHAM SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

■At the monthly meeting of tie Waltham School Comraittco there were present: Messrs J. Shier (chairman), Langley, Marsdcn, Symons, Hayward, Gray, and. Smith. An apology for non-attendance was received from Mr A. Turner. The headmaster reported, tho roll number at October 31at to be 670, and the average attendance KM. It was agreed to erect a gate at'the Thackeray street frontage of the boys' playground, md to hold a children's fancy cLreas ball ta November 27th. The arranging of the hall was left in the hands of Mr Langley. The secretary ws instructed to write to the Board asking it to snKmit a. report on the wiiatows, ventilation. and blinds in the school. Correspondence was received from the Board etaUns that it had been decided to snppty *• blind for a. skylight in ono room.

Should the French Minister of Finance want precedents for his proposed tax on appearances he will find some in Jersey, in the Channel Islands, where the'visitor quickly learns that his host is shy of exhibiting fine pictures on his walls, for the more refined and rich the trappings of his cottage the heavier the taxes. His neighbours, transformed for the time being into .officials, visit his house to fix in the casual Jerseytashion how much he ought to pay. They arrive at appraisement by furtive glances at the appearance of wealth, and on these appearances the charge is made. Bolsheviks fall back on the sa-nw easy plaa.