FREE PLACE EXAMINATION FEES

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20961, 15 September 1933, Page 8

FREE PLACE EXAMINATION FEES

——4 MRS M'COMBS MAKES FIRST OFFICIAL REQUEST Mrs E. R. McC'omfas, the newlyelected member for Lyttelton, yesterday took action in a matter to which she several times referred in her election addresses—the necessity for the payment of a fee of 10s for the senior free place examination by the children of relief workers and others. She telegraphed to the Acting-Minister for Education (the Hon. J. Bitchener) asking that the fee should be remitted, and last evening received a reply .from Mr Bitchener saying that he would refer the request to the Hon. R. Masters for urgent consideration as soon as he returned to New Zealand. Mrs McCombs's telegram was as follows: "I would esteem it a favour if you could see your way to grant my first request, which is that your department should remit the fee of 10s for the senior free place examination to the children of relief workers and others in like circumstances, and that you should permit the acceptance of late entries for that examination." Last evening Mrs McCombs received the following reply from Mr Bitchener:— "In reply to your telegram re senior free place examination fees: as the matter is one of policy I propose bringing it under the notice of the Plon. E. Masters for urgent consideration immediately on his return."