FREE SCHOOL BOOKS.
The. Rangi'Likei Advocate protects against five school books being prj-vid-2d for the children attending primary schools. Tine editor of the Marton paper probably has no ehilclivn attending school. Ho does not appreciate, the tax wMch is imposed, upon beads of families in the provision of books for the syllabus of (to-day. Ho forgets .thai the father of a family is taxed up to the eyes through the pernicious Customs. Ho does not realise the struggle for existence of the man who does Ms duty by the State and "keeps the cradle full." _ The concession of free school books in all Standards of the primary school would afford relief to till© man who most requires it. And for .that reason it as tmoi-e than justified.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19110807.2.10
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10307, 7 August 1911, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
127FREE SCHOOL BOOKS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10307, 7 August 1911, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in