EXPENDITURE ON EDUCATION.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15500, 29 January 1916, Page 9

EXPENDITURE ON EDUCATION.

COMMENTS BY THE MINISTER. (tress association telegram.) AVELLINGTQN, January 2S. There were some people, said the Hon. J. A. Hanan, in reply to a deputation to-day, who would make the war an excuse to stop certain services. For instance, thero were some who thought that the medical inspection of schools could well stop during the war. on the grounds of expense, but he -would not countenance such a thing; it would be false economy. A reduction of expenditure in this and other matters . like primary education would meaii that the- chilclren of the workers would he deprived of the benefits they should receive. The workers wero sharing but little in the prosperity of the country, which was alloged to be due to tho war. Though it would be impossible to direct that some of the wealth which was said to have been derived by the "wool kings" into the pockets of the workers, tho least they could do was to seo that tho health and education of the children of the workers wero looked after and promoted. 1 TO THE EDITOR OF "THE I'BKSS." Sir, —I must apologise for taking up your valuable space at this time, but under the circumstances I have no doubt will agreo with mo that we have just cause for a serious grievance hero with the attitude of the Education Board in not giving us some encouragement as to when there is likely to "bo *a school- established hero at AVaipara. There are something over thirty children in and about AVaipara and Glemnark eligible for school, and yet, after petitioning the Education Board on several occasions, we seem no nearer getting a school than ever. AVhen the Government placed the Glcnmark Estate on the market for selection a portion of tho estate was reserved for a school site, consequently leading the public to believe the education of their children would be provided for. The nearest school is tho Omihi, which is a distance of some eight miles away, necessitating the children having to travel by train, arriving at the school just prior to the dinner hour, and what "is more, owing to a few of the AVaipara children attending the Omihi School it has already caused it to be overcrowded. —Yours, etc., SETTLER. AVaipara, January '28th.