HIGH SCHOOL FARM

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 301, 15 September 1933, Page 3

HIGH SCHOOL FARM

Government Assistance Wanted Dominion Special Service. Napier, September 14. “I think that it would be tragic if we were turned down at the present juncture," remarked the Rev. F. L. Frost at last night’s meeting of the Napier Secondary Education Board in discussing the reply which had been received to the board’s application to the Government tor assistance in connection with the Napier Boys’ High School farm. In replying to the request the department stated: — “It appears from correspondence on departmental files that the question of approving the proposal of the board to establish a school farm was postponed until the Government’s policy regarding the purchase of school farms had been decided, as several other schools had made similar applications. “Owing to the financial stringency there is no present prospect of favourable consideration being given to such proposals. Apart altogether from the merits of the board's proposal, and apart from any consideration of the reasonableness or otherwise of the items listed in the schedule, the department is unable at the present time to consider any expenditure in connection with the further provision of school farms.” . , . In regard to the matter the chairman, Mr. W. Dinwiddie, suggested that the whole matter be left over until the return of the Hon. R. Masters to New Zealand. This suggestion was adopted. “It seems strange to me that the Government will spend money in developing farms on the other side of the river but will not help, us to teach the boys the way to farm correctly,” said Mr. W. T. Foster, principal of the school.