EDUCATIONAL RETRENCHMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 66, 18 March 1910, Page 6

EDUCATIONAL RETRENCHMENT.

(By Telesrapih.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHtIECH:, tnis day. The withdrawal•'of; the extra capita tion grant of ninepence by the Educa tibn Department wa,s referred to thi afternoon at the opening of a fair orga ■nised .'.by:the iEast Christcliurch. Sohoc .Committee, with a view to making v the deficiency in its income. ■«■ Mr X B •Davey MSB., in opening, the fair, sai that it would .not 'bo expedient for hii •to i enter 'into a disquisition on politics Tnafters—-that ■■ could best wait till ill ■reached -Wellington,' where, .with th help-of feUo-w-memboja, he •would do a' he could to got'the v ;grarit restored. H read a telegram he. had sent to th Minister of Education, stating the res son for holding the fair, and suggestin that, as the Government frequently sul aidised, public money raised for laudabl objects, a subsidy should be given o the amount xaised by the fair.' M Fowlds had replied, stating ,that. it wa impossible -to comply Ayitlt . tba vequeg; as there' was -ao vote from- which--a. sxil sidy <iould be. paid. -• . ■ ■■ : Vr • ;, ;;-; ■ ■;'; '; W&NG&mjf, 'Thursday. ; ,A conference of district school commji 4te^a"" ItSjltSj ; xiigVt passGd v a .resolution "pjc tektin j against" the reduction of , the cap itaiUdti By' tie .(^'venMnen|!:j , ;'''."" us _^