Chapter 39: Newspaper Release
September 27, 1900, on the streets of Sydney.
On this day, David Colliss walked on his way to work as usual. As an ordinary person with little ability, David Colliss was lucky enough to enter the screening of the Sydney police and was hired.
Although it is only in the training phase now, he still earns more than two pounds a month to support his family.
David Colliss is very happy with the job, so he is motivated every day and is passionate about training.
Passing by a newsstand, David Corliss instinctively glanced at the stall, it was just a casual glance, but he didn't expect that the newsstand was full of the same newspaper, and there was a very intimate billboard next to it, which said that His Highness had a new policy.
Wait, Your Highness?
David Corliss recoiled with doubts, grabbed a newspaper, pulled out a penny from the staring gaze of the newsstand owner, and handed it to the boss.
Holding the newspaper, David Collis had long since lost his previous look of nothingness, although he was still walking on the road, but his eyes were staring at the newspaper, as if he wanted to spy on the whole newspaper.
Finally, after surviving the journey of more than ten minutes, David Colliss finally rushed home.
This is a house located in the suburbs of Sydney, although the house looks a little dilapidated, but after being decorated by the David Corliss family with simple flowers and plants, it still reflects a bit of warmth.
"David!" After hearing the voice, David Corlis's wife walked out first, smiled and handed over a glass of water, and then said, "How was today's training?" Your chief shouldn't have embarrassed you, right? ”
"Hahaha, how could it be. Today's training went well, and the boss paid me this month's salary, you see, two pounds and five shillings and three pence! David Colliss said with a smile as he handed his salary to his wife.
"Oh! Thank God that you have such a good job and the food you have received is enough for us to have a comfortable New Year. David Corlis's wife accepted David's salary with a look of surprise and said gratefully.
"You owe your thanks to Your Highness, Emily. If it weren't for Your Highness, you wouldn't have received so much free food, and I wouldn't have been able to find a job with such a high salary. David Corliss interrupted his wife's erroneous speech in time to correct it.
"Oh yes, please forgive me." Emily also corrected her mistake in time and said to her husband with an apologetic face.
"Alright, Emily. Let's go and prepare dinner, I want to take a good look at this newspaper, it is said that His Highness has a new policy. David Colliss picked up the newspaper he had on his heart and commanded his wife.
With the consolidation of the state newspapers into a single entity, Australia's chaotic and disjointed newspaper industry was largely controlled by Arthur.
At present, there are two major newspapers in Australia, namely the Australian daily newspaper, which focuses on life and entertainment, and the Victoria News, which focuses on political news.
Although the two newspapers are responsible for their own areas on a day-to-day basis, they print important news together when the government and the royal family have important policies and announcements.
The newspaper David Colliss got his hands on today is the Victoria News. However, because it is a special day, the content of the newspaper print is the same.
Picking up the newspaper, there was a very conspicuous headline on the front, which prominently wrote the education policy of His Royal Highness Arthur.
When it came to education, David Corlis's already important heart became even more important, and he quickly concentrated and began to watch the news word for word.
The content of the news is actually very simple, and it is basically Arthur's several reforms in education and the corresponding welfare policies.
In addition to the previously agreed university admissions, Arthur will also invest at least £2 million a year for 10 years to encourage all Australian families to send school-age children to school in order to improve Australia's basic education environment.
To this end, the royal family will pay at least 40 percent of the tuition fees for each child, and all tuition fees and fees will be waived for children who perform well.
In order to take care of the poorer families, Arthur promised to lend funds in the form of interest-free loans to students from poor families to meet their learning needs.
Scholarships are available in all schools nationwide, with a quota of about 10 percent of the total number of students.
Under various policies, a large number of preferential treatment has been given to students who want to go to school but have no money to go to school, and the problem of wanting to go to school but not having the money to go to school has been basically eliminated.
It is conceivable that the new round of Australian school enrollment will be full, especially for basic education, which does not cost much money, and there will be a large number of students.
Although most Australians are poor, they all migrated from Europe and know the importance of education, especially basic education.
Once these people have a choice, they will also choose to have their children have a good education, at least not one step behind others at the starting line.
"Oh! Emily! Emily! Come on! Seeing this, David Corliss was a little uneasy, and hurriedly called his wife.
"What's wrong? What happened? Emily hurriedly walked over and asked in surprise at her fussy husband.
"Damn, look at this, Emily. Your Highness is going to invest money to improve education, so that our children can enter school! David Colliss said excitedly.
"Where, where?" Emily also came up and searched around.
"The royal family promised to pay 70 percent of the tuition fees, and the remaining 30 percent can also be paid on behalf of the other until graduation?" Emily read it word by word, her eyes full of incredulity.
"Establish a scholarship at the National University of Australia to select at least 200 students of outstanding moral character each year and award a scholarship of at least £10?" Reading this, Emily was not calm and asked in disbelief, "Oh my God,
David, the scholarships for these students are almost half of your annual income. Doesn't that mean that not only does it not cost you money to go to college, but you can still make money? ”
"Yes, dear. Not only is Rick's university settled, but we probably don't have to spend any money! David Colliss nodded heavily and said to his wife.
Rick Colliss is the only only child of David Colliss and his wife Emily, and their pride.
At only 19 years old, Rick Collis is already a high school graduate that everyone envies, but because his family can't afford the expensive college fees, he has no choice but to give up.
But now it seems that Rick still has hope of going to college, even without spending money.