EDUCATION ECONOMIES
STATEMENT BY MINISTER (By Telegraph—Press Association) PALMERSTON N., This Day. Several Government decisions with regard to the recommendation of the Economy Commission were announced by the Hon. R. Masters in tlio course of a speech at the opening of the Central School at Palmerston North yesterday. He said that they would have cut out all subsidies this year, but Cabinet could not agree. A charge should be made for the School Journal. The Government had decided that .it would not make a definite cut in the cost of the conveyance of school children, hut proposed that economies be made as far as possible without laying down any fixed amount. The Government could not accept the recommendation to dispense with free railway facilities for secondary pupils. No decision had been arrived at with regard to the abolition of education boards, and the capitation to school committees would not he reduced. He was afraid that maintenance costs would have to be cut.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 16 April 1932, Page 7
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