TEN POUNDS MISSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 90, 17 April 1929, Page 9

TEN POUNDS MISSING.

SCHOOL, COMMITTEE FUNDS. EDUCATION BOARD CON"*,'KJIXED. About two months ago the committee of the Dargaville District High School complained to the Auckland Education Board that it could not carry on without an increa.-e ol its incidenlal allowance. At that time the hoard declined to do t hi-, hut it met the committee hy agreei to 'i*y certain of itn debt-. The comn!resigned as a body, t-tating th:>» ? viuulil not be able to carry on jn iutr,w.

Since then, the board has inquired cdo.-ely into the committee's accounts ami the board's accountant reported at to-day's meeting that no trace could be found of an amount of £10 alleged to have been paid to the committee by Mr. Williams as a voluntary contribution. The committee collected a subsidy ot £10 on this contribution. "Nothing can be done until we pet details of the £10 given by V'*'. YVilliam-,'' said Mr. A. Burns, chairman of the board. Mr. D. W. Dunlop t-aid that if the £10 was paid, the board wanted to know what account it went through. If the £ 111 had not been paid, the committee had obtained its subsidy illegally. Mr. YY". J. Campbell: It looks to me that they are up against it either way. The board ban written to Mr. Y T i iliiam* asking him for particular- of hi* donation, but to far no reply has been received.