TRANSPORT OF PUPILS.
GOVERNMENT CANNOT CONTRIBUTE. |By Telegraph —Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. In the opinion of the Director of Education, Mr. T. B. Strong, the Government could not consider a request that the Education Department should contribute toward the cost of transporting children from country districts to Hamilton, where trains are unavailable.
Mr. Strong advised the Hamilton High School Board of Governors to this effect at a. meeting yesterday. The principal objection, he pointed out, would be on the score of expense. The matter was not one affecting any one district alone, but must be considered from the point of view of the Dominion as a whole. For the present the conveyance out-stion must be confined to the case of the attendance of scholars of primary schools.
The chairman (Mr. C. L. said In view of the director's definite answer, it seemed hopeless to press the matter further.
The meeting' referred the matter to t.h secondary schools' conference for consid eration.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 71, 24 March 1928, Page 14
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