SCHOOL REQUESTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 209, 5 September 1939, Page 9

SCHOOL REQUESTS.

REPLIES BY MINISTER.

COXTEREXC'E COXSIDEKATIOX

Consideration of answers given by the Minister of Education, the Hon. P. Eraser, in reply to remits from last year conference, took up a considerable time this morning at the second sitting of the sixth annual national conference of the Dominion Federation of School Committees' Associations of Xew Zealand. The national president, Mr. W. H. Fortune, Nvas in the chair.

In answer to a request for further grants for primary school committees, the Minister pointed out that the committees now receivcil £]■>(>,001) for incidental expenses, an increase of approximately .">0 per cent on the amount provided in 193,"». A review of payment in some instances might take place as the result of the findings of a committee which was considering a .scheme for the employment and payment of caretakers.

ilr. Fraser also stated that his Department would consider the provision of telephones in schools; that consideration would be given to the request that all estimates for work likely to be a charge against school capitation should be referred, first of all, to the school committee* concerned; and that it was the objective of the Government, in relation to the school medical service, to include children in the social security provisions, to enable them to be examined once a vear.