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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16985, 6 November 1920, Page 7

Complaints of dilatoriness on the part of the Education Department were made at yesterday's meeting of the Canterbury Education Board, "when dealing with questions regarding school building requirements. Mr G. \V. Armitage said that the position was becoming intolerable. The Board had been too patient and should enter an emphatic protest to the Department, winch was dull and drowsy. "It has been asleep .for a long time past," he j said; "occasionally it turns over in its , sleep and mutters something unintel-! ligible or childish." Mr T. Hughes ; suggested that the matter should be ; brought under the notice of the Prime : Minister. Mr H. J. B.gnell said that when the Department was fl6ked ones- i tions regarding grants it simply "pro- ' crastinated. The Minister of Educa- ! tion had been willing to assist the boards, but unfortunately the Department ran out of funds, and because building matters were held v.n the Board was blamed. It was decided, on the motion of Mr C. S. Thompson, sec- i onded by Mr A. Peverill, that a pro- ' t-est shou'id be forwarded to the Depart- : ment. and that <a deputation, consisting of the chairman (Mr E. H. Andrews), Messrs Jdjn Jamieson and G. W. Armitage, should bring the matter un- | der the notice of the Canterbury zaem- ' bers of Parliament.