FREE EDUCATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 498, 24 June 1880, Page 2

FREE EDUCATION.

. — +~~- —' •. To the Editor of the Wairakata Daily. Sir,-Whilst the Educational Board are lavishing money upon the enlargement and ornamenting of the City State schools the schools, or rather districts without schools and wanting the same, have to go a begging to the Board to supply 1 them with the means of educating their children, and yet all pay a tax directly or indirectly to the Government. There are such things as monopolies, land laws, Property Tax, and other matters which we will riot mention. People have read and studied " Josh Billings as an American naturalsit;" We refer to "bugs," big and little "bugs." It amounts to a round robin, one gluing on and sinking the other. If your readers happen to be naturalists study leeches The big bugs act as leeches to the Government, and take' very good care that the old and venerable gentleman has not too much blood left. Big fleas have little fleas upon their legs to .bite 'em; little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. In the cf.se of blood-letting, or "Fleabothomy," the central Boards might let a little more blood out of the main arteries into the lesser veins. In scattered districts'in many places schools are required, yet the public money is spent upon enlarging and improving' and embellishing the City State Schools, instead of giving some of the much needed money to the requirements of comparatively poor, soattered, and neglected districts. According to the immortal ploughman, who turned himself into the immortal Sootch moral and immoral poet—lf the fairy would the"giftiegie us to see ourselves as others see us," we might have the film taken oft our eyes, and our understanding enlightened, and thus see olearly. • •■ - . lam,&c, ApartybythenameofJohhson. .