THE NEW EDUCATION ACT.
[To sin EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—In my last year of office as chairman of the now super- seded School Board of my parish my Board requisitioned the Parish Council for an amount of deficiency entailing a rate of 3d. per pound (owners and occupiers inclusive). When the new Education Act came into force the corresponding rate soared at one bound to 3s. 7d. per pound. I understand that this year we are menaced by a rate of about 5s. By a gross and glaring injustice this parish is called upon to pay up for burghal districts which have every facility for secondary education at the door. There will never be peace in rural Scotland till this monstrous Act is either repealed or drasti- cally amended.—I am, Sir, &c., A. GORDON Miscasts., D.D., Minister of the Parish of Killearn. The Manse of Killearn, by Glasgow.
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