Education in Auckland is provided for by means of a poll-tax levied on all citizens above the age of 21 years. Thereon the Thames *• Star " of a recent date says •. — " The agent for the collection of the Education Rate is about. He expresses surprise at the number of bachelors under the age of 21 years, and disgust at the palpable mendacity of many of them. Of this the following illustration is given When the collector called at a house where a young man resided he ha i to wait for some time, when the young man came down in his shirt sleeves, and to the regular enquiry lisped that he had seen seventeen summers, and, if spared, he had confident expectations of seeing one or two more. 'Do you shave ?' asked the collector. 1 No,' replied the other as if surprised at question. 'Then what is that patch of dirty lather upon your face?' sternly demanded ohe collector. • Oh !' exclaimed the young man, scraping off with his hand a lump of ' soapschaum,' ' that is a sud which mother threw at me for setting a cock to fight old Brown's turkey." The collector says that the surface of that young man's face swarmed with sheared roots of a luxuriant crop of whiskers."
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Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1963, 20 November 1874, Page 2
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