OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1929, Page 5

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

GRANTS FOR EDUCATION. ' •1 LARGE INCREASE MADE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept.' 25. State grants of 60 per cent, instead of the present 20 per cent, are to be given to local education authorities to enable them to implement the proposed legislation for raising the school leaving age to fifteen years. The legislation will come into effect in eighteen months’ time. A Board of Education explains that this large increase in State assistance is to ensure the rapid provision .of suitable accommodation. The boarct does not anticipate any shortage of suitable teachers, and thinks that some of those now unemployed could he absorbed, while others about to retire could be retained and married women teachers if suitable could be recalled. RELIEF OF INDUSTRIES'. IN FULL OPERATION NEXT WEEK. RUGBY, Sept. 25. On Tuesday the rating reform scheme of the late Conservative Government will come into full operation, and from chat date British industry will be relieved of three-fourths of the burden of rates which it has hitherto borne. Although assistance has already been given to agriculture and to certain of the heavier trades, industry as a whole has yet. to receive the benefit of the greater part of the scheme, for the purposes of which a sum estimated at some £26,000,000 yearly is to be made available. The section of the Act that deals with the reform of local government will not come into operation until April next. , >