STATE FUNDS FOR UNIVERSITY
Ministers’ Reply To Committee (New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, August 6. The Prime Minister (Mr Nash) had assured the University Grants Committee that the Government’s policy was to give an opportunity for all worthy persons to attend university, providing they had entrance qualifications, the chairman, Dr. G. A. Currie told the New Zealand University Senate today. The grants committee had interviewed the Prime Minister, together with the Minister of Finance (Mr Nordmeyer) and Minister of Education (Mr Skoglund) last month to put before them the needs of the universities, particularly in regard to buildings, said Dr. Currie.
The Grants Committee must understand that the Government might not be able to meet all financial demands made upon them, the Ministers had said. But education was so much a matter they believed in that they would do their best not to cut grants for educational purposes. To provide all the buildings and facilities required over the next 10 years to accommodate, at the present level, all those who sought university education, at least £llm would be needed and several new special schools called for.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28658, 7 August 1958, Page 12
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