THE NEW EDUCATION ACT.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sig,—With reference to the letter from Mr. James MacLehose in your issue of November 20th, I regret that Lamington is no isolated instance of the grievous impositions of this Act. In My own parish of Cameron, in the Co-unty of Fife, the educa- tion rate has risen from 6.44., as it was in 1928-19 before the Act came into force, to 68.1d. in the pound for 1020-21. The acreage of the parish is 9,325; population, 603. Some fifty children attend school, and as there are one male and one female teacher instead of two male and a female assistant, and the buildings were left in excellent repair by the late board, the expenses incurred in the parish remain very much
as they were.—I am, Sir, &c., R. W. PURVIS. Gilmerton, Fife.
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