EQUIPMENT QUESTIONS.

Northern Advocate, 28 August 1913, Page 5

EQUIPMENT QUESTIONS.

The member for Hutt puts a question to the Minister for Education

•'What," asks Mr Wilford, 'has been done with the 10,000 Glengarry caps, the 10,000 waist belts, the 10,000 Douches, f .he 10,000 haversacks, the 10,000 jerseys and the 10,000 model rifles which were recently purchased for the Junior Cadets, whether it is a fact that the jerseys, which cost about 3s 10d each, are being sold for Is each, and the model rifles, which cost about 4s each, have in some cases Ibeen burnt, and whether any officer in the Education Department has given authority for such rifles to be burnt?"

Mr Wilford also wants to know whether authority has been given to any school teachers to sell and dispose of the Junior Cadet jerseys which were recently purchased by the Crown at a cost, roughly, of £1917, and whether the proceeds of the sales of some of Ufese jerseys have Jbeen paid into the sports funds of certain schools instead of into the Public Account, and, if so, who gave such authority?