SCHOOL BUILDINGS GRANT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 41, 17 February 1910, Page 6

SCHOOL BUILDINGS GRANT.

DUXEDIN, Wednesday. At a meeting of the Education Board to-day, Mr. Jas. Mitchell moved, "That the Board regret that the Minister should! have deemed it necessary to reduce the ordinary building grant by so large an amount without any prior intimation, and after the boards had entered on obligations, relying upon the maintenance of the principle laid down by the Education CommitU'e of the H-ouse of Representatives in 1904 and adopted by the Minister and until now acted upon. The Board regret also that the Minister does not fully appreciate thy absolute necessity for boards being given assured finance in order that they may properly discharge their functions and avoid recurring financial embarrassment. The Board will be glad to receive an assurance that the building grant will be reinstated wthout delay upon the basi3 laid down by the Education Committee." Mr. Mitchell went at length into the figures recently adduced by the Minister for Education to justify the reduction, holding that> these figures had not the most remote connection with the subject.