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A careful review of the principal items of expenditure of the School Board for London, cannot fail to be of service to the Electors, to whom is entrusted for the third time the election of a new Board, more particularly in view of the strong impression now prevalent, that the educational results have, up to the present time, been obtained with an unnecessary expenditure.

The object of these pages will be to show that, thus far there has not been exercised that due economy which the interest of the ratepayers demand, and that the progressive rate of increase calls, in many instances, for very careful analysis, and a determination on the part of the Electors, that the new Board shall comprise representatives who with every consideration for educational efficiency, will regard the interests of the ratepayers as of considerably more importance than their predecessors have done.

There can be no doubt whatever that, with the exceptional advantages at its command, the London School Board should be able to conduct its operations in a more economical manner