THE BUILDING PROBLEM.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 190, 12 August 1920, Page 4

THE BUILDING PROBLEM.

ULTIMATUM TO EDUCATION

BOARD.

[FROM OtTB CORRESPOISItEKT.I

WELLINGTON. Aug. 11. The Minister for Education, in endeavoring to solve the difficult problem^ of catching up on the arrears "in school buildings, is badly handicapped owing to lack of knowledge regarding the relative urgency of the large number of requests. He informed your correspondent that early in April the Education Department asked the nine Education Boards to- indicate, their building requirement's for the next three years, and the order of impdrtance of the various items. This is necessary, *so that the problem can be systematically tackled and the most urgent cases taken first, .but only one, a small Board, Iris ruppHed the necessary details, while the Department continues to receive almost daily further requests for buildings, "The building question is so difficult," remarked the Hon. Mr: Parr, "that it cannot be overcome, in a-' niecemcal, wvstematie, and wasteful fashion. We must have a. proper scheme to work upon, and until the information I -have asked for is supplied, I must refuse to make many '.further building grants."