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that the additional charges schools would make would be more than was necessary to cover the cost of Sports, Libraries and Hodical Expenses, and we doubt if it was over anticipated that schools would charge less for tuition under the now code then they did under the old. High fees for additional charges are only possible now because of the great shortage of schools and parents are willing to pay anything to get their children into schools.

While it is true that rehabilitation is still incomplete and that the administrative details considered necessary to ensure the proper use of public funds require much time, once the schools are repaired and equipped the amount of work should diminish considerably and the burden on Heads of Schools will probably be bearable. 7e do not agree that Government has complete control of the approved expenditure. So far Government has only fixed the Limits of expenditure of Other Charges and it has not been suggested that every item of expenditure under Other Charges should be submitted for approval. The Anglican Schools suggest "an adequate capitation grant": how is such a grant to be fixed, how is one to know what is adequate? The limits under the various heads fixed for the year 1948/49 for our own schools are reasonable and we have not heard any complaint on this subject from other schools.

With regard to salaries, while it is true that Government fixes the scale and incremental date, actual increments are at the discretion of managers. We feel that a definite scale will prevent undesirable competition between schools on financial grounds.

The Anglican Schools objection to the regulations regarding the collection of fees monthly, forbidding entrance examinations, the amount and frequency of voluntary charitable giving, suggests that they are unaware of the rackets rife in the Colony, but knowing of these ourselves we are prepared to accept those regulations if it will strengthen the position of the Director of Education in dealing with the schools which do not have "the right kind of managers". When the present demand for places in schools is loss and unscrupulous managers have less temptation to take advantage of the existing shortage by charging extortionate fees, we hope it will be possible for the Director of Education to relax some of the conditions now considered necessary.

As missionaries we are not anxious about the remuncration of Heads of Schools and we consider the charge allowance adequate. We abhor the idea of introducing a system of units into the method of determining the salaries of Hoads.

e have no objection however to the Heads of Schools who do not consider themselves missionaries drawing a charge allowance greater than the present one. Perhaps the responsibilities of administering Boarding Schools ought to be considered by the managers of the schools concerned, and an extra charge allowance awarded out of boarding fees.

To sum up, we feel that the present code and the principle that the Grant should be related to the needs of individual schools and determined by the difference between

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