CORRESPONDENCE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10580, 11 March 1912, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE

TRUST LANDS TRUST. [To The Editor.] Sir, — Reading your report of the meeting on Friday night, one wonders if the body of men entrusted with the management of the above—to Masterton—most important of educational affairs are business men with the interests of our young people at heart. To think that' such a suggestion as was made could possibly originate in their fertile brains fairly passes understanding. A £4O scholarship to the son of a "poor man" (Mr Jackson's words) who must devote the whole of his time to his university work! And then, Mr Editor, comes the most amazing tiling ever heard of. He must ! not win another scholarship, or else helioses the £4O. Surely there must ibe some mistake in this. To start with, no son of a "poor man" would have any hope of devoting the whole of his time with only £4O a year. His outfit, books and fees- run into quite £25, leaving him to be passing rich on £ls for twelve months. Butconceding the son of a poor man receives help from his parents, he cannot work himself, or he loses "£4O. Why in the name of all that is good must he he penalised- if he wins off his'own bat another scholarship? (NHiff just now.— I aim, etc., EDUCATION, NO!