FREE KINDERGARTENS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 14 July 1936, Page 6

FREE KINDERGARTENS.

QUESTION OF GRANTS. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, July 13. A request lor financial assistance in carrying on the work of the Duuuiin Eree Kindergarten Association was made by a deputation from the association comprising Lady Sidey, Mrs R. A. Ewing, and Mrs D. Phillips, which waited on the Minister of Education (Hon. P. Fraser) this afternoon. Mrs Ewing said that the Dunedin association, which was the oldest in New Zealand, conducted live kindergartens, one in North East \ alley having been closed during the depression. Some years ago the association had received a grant of £4OO from the Dunedin Savings Bank and had been virtually promised a subsidy on that amount by the Minister. At that time the association had gone ahead and paid £450 for a section at St. Kilda, but the subsidy had not come from the Government. Now the Savings Bank was willing to allow the association the section provided it received as much as it paid for the land, and it was possible that the money might be used for a kindergarten in some other district, possibly Tainui. The association was anxious that the former Government capitation grant- he restored. The Minister promised to give consideration to the deputation’s request as soon as possible. Hhe said it must be regarded as part of the : general scheme of kindergartens in New Zealand and the important thing was that they should be efficiently conducted.