EVACUATION AND TAXATION
SIR,—Surely, Sir, " Tenby " in your last issue misses the whole point of my letter—which was: How does one meet such a situation as I described?
I was not complaining. The education of our children is not thus far dislocated. It is in danger of becoming so. Does " Tenby " suggest it is unreasonable that a parson should send his children to a Preparatory or a High School respectively? I live in a fair-sized vicarage, but I have no option; certainly no layman in receipt of my income would think of living in this house, but I am required to do so. Again, my letter should have read : " We have given up our maid" (not one maid)! we have none at all, and have not had since the outbreak of war.
For the rest, one greatly deprecates the continued suggestion that one is taking everything and giving nothing, shielding oneself behind the sacrifices of others, and so on. Maybe it would be found that the sacrifices made by my wife and myself are not less than those made by " Tenby " and many others? I don't know. But neither
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