THE PREMIER AND EDUCATION GRANTS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11565, 23 April 1903, Page 5

THE PREMIER AND EDUCATION GRANTS.

DISCUSSION AT THE BOAED.

At the meeting of the Education Board yesterday, Mr Opie drew tbe Chairman's ;itlention to the statement made by the Right Hon. the Premier at Wai mate as to tha neglect of the Board to make the necese&ry applications for grants, in consequence of which some- of the money available had gone to the North Bland.

The Chairman (Mr Hardy, M.H.R.) said Uio position really was thai- if the Board had paid postage on the applications for grants cent, to the Department, they would !>?. bankrupt. Their secretary had been uselessly employed in making 'applications in connection with which no satisfactory repliay had been received. As Chairman of the Board he did nob care to go over the Premier's statement*, but he wns really getting tired of reading in tlie ptijwrs whet thft Premier said about Mi? Bonrd.

Mr Biidtlo, JM.H.R., pointrd oitl Hiat Mr Seddon's remarks at Wehnwte did not refer to applications for grants for new schools, but for technical school bui'dingn and apparatus. The Xorth Canterbury Board had not made api>licationN for technical education purposes simply because there had been no demand for such expenditure.

The Chairman said that the. Premier's statements regarding the Board's applications for funds had been exceedingly wideof th-3 mark.

Mr Buddo asked if the Board siad made applications for grants for technical education buildings. The Chairman replied in the negative, bar. poiiil/ed cut that the Premier had referred to applications for grants in aid of tho general fund.