A TIME OF NEED

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 116, 19 May 1931, Page 10

A TIME OF NEED

EDUCATION VOTE

HOLDING THE STRINGS

(By Telegraph.) iv (Special to "The Evening Post.")

CHBISTCHURCH, This Day.

"We are approaching a crisis in the history of'this country.. Whether we can weather it depeads on to what extent the education that has been given our young people in past years has been of the right sort,'? said the ; Prime Minister, speaking at the jiibilee celebrations .at the Christchurch Boys' High School

There had, never, said- Mr. Forbes, been a time in the history of. NewZealand when str.ength-of character was more necessary; A country's_ greatness depended not so ,much on its material wealth or on itsrscenery as on the spirit pjf its people,: and : it was to tßat they had to look in this, time of need. . . .. ,■.'■■.■ .

"One is apt as: an old boy to be. carried away by a feeling, qf what is due to the school that has given us so much," said Mr. Forbes. However, as Minister of Finance, he had to remember that there were limitations to the amount of- money that was available for education purposes. The income of the country, had very seriously decreased during the past twelve months, and they had to weigh very carefully every item of expenditure. During times when money was plentiful they had been, able to. afford many things that they would. now hkve to do without. ■ ''■:■ v