This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...to pay in other directions. It is very difficult to give exact figures as to the amount which the Board-school system costs the estate, but the recent establishment of a new Board school synchronising with a revaluation of rent enables me to give an account. The school building will cost me 2,8001., and as a set-off to the school rate, 561. Os. 6d. has been taken off the farm rents. It may be added that since 1870 the rule never departed from is to decline all assistance to voluntary schools. Finally, it may be pointed out that while the net income for forty years averages 7,500Z. per annum, the average annual outlay on charity amounts to 7,248Z. These charities may perhaps be advantageous to the State by preventing rural depopulation, to the tenantry by attaching the labourer to...