EDUCATION RUMOURS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 249, 20 October 1922, Page 7

EDUCATION RUMOURS.

. ! THE ANNUAL VOTES. R Km"( Tl< iN NOT i -ON'TEM PbATKD. j , I ll'.y Tolpsrrapb- I'arllan-.oniary Reporter.) WELLINGTON". Thursday. Tli- Minister of Education was asked by Mr. Dixon (Paten) if he would inform the Mouse whetCier there was any fminilntioii fer the rumours being e.ir-i-ulatetl regarding the proposed reduc- ' tions in education expenditure. He understood that a circular had been sent to teachers from a teachers' conference stating tliat the Reform party would, if returned to power, make reductions in tCie education vote of £I.CHit».OOO. He had also licen informed by teachers that j it «a« being circtilnted in the profession that the Government, if retnrned' In power, would make half a million] reduction in educational expenditure i next. year. I "I he rumour is untrue." answered the i Minister of LCducatinu. "It is also un- I true that the Reform Government would' reduce educational expenditure next year j by half a million. I fear thaf these 1 reports are i>eing eir.-ulatod for elee- j rioneerlns purposes." He added that tlie record of thp p;ist few years wast the br-i'. indication rf the (Jovernmenfs I mind in regard to education. The vote: in 1!> 14 was t1.40n.000. tihis session the! votes totalled £3i20f».412, and he hoped \ to maintain that vote. (Hear. hear.l \ Minor economies were contemplated.' hut there would be no reductions which I would impair the efficiency of the New 1 Zealand educational system.