22 OCTOBER 1943, Page 14

SCHOOL FEES AND INDEPENDENCE

Sm,—In reply to Mr. P. J. Welch, his statement that a headmaster of any quality can easily dominate his governors, and hence everyone else,-Is surely one which it would be difficult for him to prove. As chairman of the governors of an old-established grammar school, I can tell him definitely that the headmaster does not dominate his governors.—Yours