SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 24, 28 January 1910, Page 4

SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

GOVERNMENT GRANT KEDUCED. (By Telegraph.—Press Asso -r-tioij-i 'WELLINGTON, ijgniwda.f, The Wellington Education i-■■.-:■•.•£ : ■ ceived advice to-day from the Depar&J menf that the building grant, for tit"' year 1909 had been reduce! from £5,500' to £3,455. "The .Bow<i h.;<i entered into building and maim -■:; responsibilities on the previous estt mate, arid viewed this reduction a-2 over £2,000 with some alarm. !ua Board finds itself on the horns ■:■ i a dilemma. The extremely urgent a?dertakings have now been reduced to "a matter of £600 odd, and many workb. it is said, will have to be dropped. Mr! Lee, the chairman, said the grant for the last five or six years wa« £4,800. He deprecated the action of the Government in waiting till year had begun before making this .most serious announcement. If the Government made the expected grant of it would only meet present liabilities with but a small margin and if the reduction were adhered to the board would find itself in the position of bexng actually unable to do an£ thing. A deputation was appointed to wa!t on the Minister.