CLEANING OF SCHOOLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 116, 17 May 1924, Page 13

CLEANING OF SCHOOLS.

■ SPECIAL GKANT OP £3000. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELUNGTON, Friday. Interviewed with regard to the alleged inadequacy of the sum allowed to school committees for the purpose of keeping schools clean, and for smaller expenseincidental to sanitation, the Minister of Education stated to-day that a complaint had been made some time ago that in cases, of larger schools the grant was not sufficient. As the result of an investigation by the Department a short time ago it was found that the grant was ample in the case of the smaller schools, many of the committees bavin*;, in fact considerable credit balances. He had however, been impressed with the disabilities of some of the larger schools, and accordingly had referred the matter !_ ?., ?T ln,e Minister, with the result *_.____** had IMd * a "Pews! grant of £3000 to assist them, the distribution to be left in the hands of the boards. The grant will be divided among the boards w proportion to population and average school attendance as follows: Auckland, £900; Taranaki, £180: Wanea- £__ A ° ; N^ lßon ' £120 ' Canterbury, £o00; Otago, £310; Southland, £195. '