SCHOOL COMMITTEES' GRANTS
' (By. Toleeraph-Presß Association.) /(| . Fending, April 23. ; The chairman of the- Wanganui Education Board, replying to the Minis, ter s statement telegraphed out, poiiits out that the increase in the clement-, ary. education voto totals'only a few .pounds more ".than the statutory increase to teachers, ' and, therefore, ' school committees and hoards are beang mulcted in deductions to provide for salaries. • In .-regard to. the credit balance the boards were to have had' in tho general account at the end of 1908, as a matter of fact there was a debit balance of bvieji" £10,000, through the Government owing the boards £39,000, -He emphatically denies the Minister's " statement that the boards have stinted the committees owing to the special grant of 9d. The trouble seems to be that other branches: of education arc becoming so expensive that the primary branch is to suffer.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 800, 25 April 1910, Page 4
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