SCHOOL FEES AT SALISBURY.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—In the Spectator of March 29th, you comment on Mr. Mundella's speech on the educational matter in York and Salisbury. As to the latter city, may I, as a resident, be allowed to correct a mistake into which you have fallen as regards the fees charged in our elementary schools?
The only school in which there is a weekly 9d. fee is the school which the Bishop has most generously built at his own expense, for the higher technical education of boys. This is not an elementary school, and is not recognised as such by the Department.
The elementary schools here charge the usual fees,-3d., more generally 2d., in one school ld.—I am, Sir, &c., Rector of St. Edmund's, Salisbury.
[We never stated what our correspondent attributes to us. We only reported Mr. Mundella's statement that it was easy enough, with a good fee and the annual grant, to pay the expenses of a school, and that working-men had to go to the Poor-Law Board to help them to pay fees so high.—En. Spectator.]
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