non-ratepayers

Updated: May 18, 2025

A School Board was the only alternative, and, as all the old managers refused to become members and no one else would undertake the responsibility, a deadlock ensued. We were threatened by the Education Department that, failing a Board of parishioners, they would appoint for the post any outsiders, non-ratepayers, who could be induced to volunteer.

Arthur H. Savory - Grain and Chaff from an English Manor