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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 73, 27 March 1919, Page 5

Ibe Department of Education has now made provision tor more gefterdtM allowances for conveyance of children to school and fo- board of those, s?ho stt» compelled to live away from home, «i order to attend a school, says'the Christchurch Press. These new special interest to struggling' settlers in the backblocks. In the case of children nfing traps, motors, or boats as con* vfeyances, the allowance of sixpence per return trip, is, now payable.- where -the distance is Over two miles, and the. spl* dren less than ten years .pf age. -The old distance was thred miles. Another provision- makes the rate of payment eightpenoe per trip in case? ‘children are conveyed over five miles; other new concession is' the payment. of two-thirds of the usual allowance iff the case of a child using a horde W pony as a means of conveyance, “whert for, wheel traiffic/are non-existent,' h* such as to be impassable dr dafteettfttjj for vehicles. 5 ’ There should be fevf St these latter cases in Canterbury. .ptS old bone of contention in regarclrtd these allowances still' remains, in that children riding bicycles to school-re-ceive no allowance. The lowance has been doubled', bfeihg iwfciNl from 2s 6d to ss, where children poniplete at least 85 per cent. ‘ of the sponsible attendances, 'pie new, -.allowances will be payable at the-end of the-pre-sent quarter, as from the beginning of the year, ~.. T