LITTER [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] .
SIR,—Your painful paragraph dealing with litter in your issue of April 10th places, I fear, too high a value on teaching as a means of checking it. For several years past by means of teaching in our village school and by a tea-party given annually to all the school-children we have tried to keep the village roads and greens clear of litter. The experiment has been, on the whole, a failure, partly through the lack of co-operation on the part of their elders, partly because it is so much easier to throw litter about than to carry it until it can be consigned to the fire or midden. Whilst, I am sure, education will help to check the litter nuisance, the most effective form of education is legislation which imposes a small fine on offenders. Te 7raOiyhara octeheara,—I am, Sir, Sic.,
[If there were regular instruction about litter in the elemen- tary schools the time would come when even the elders would not be without instruction. But we quite agree about the value of prosecution. The by-laws of the public parks should be more usually enforced.—En. Spectator.]
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