CLEANING OF SCHOOLS.
SPECIAL GRANT OF £3000.
AUCKLAND TO RECEIVE £900.
["by telegraph.—PßESS
WELLINGTON, Friday. Interviewed with regard to the alleged inadequacy of the sum allowed to school committees for the purpose of keeping schools clean, and for smaller expenses incidental to sanitation, the Minister for Education stated to-day that a complaint had been made some time ago that in cases of larger .schools the grant was not sufficient. As the result of an investigation by the department a short timo ago it was found that the grant was ample in the cases of the smaller schools, many of the committees having, in fact, considerable credit balances. , He had however, been impressed with the disV abilities of some of the larger ' schools, and accordingly had referred the matter to the Prime Minister with the result that Cabinet had made a special grant of £3000 to assist them, the distribution to be left in the hands of the boards. ' The grant will be * divided among'the boards in proportion to population and average school attendance as follows Auckland/ £900; Taranaki, ■ £180; , Wanganui, £240; Hawke's Bay, £215; Wellington, £340; Nelson, £120 . Canterbury, £600; Ota™, £310; Southland, £195.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18711, 17 May 1924, Page 8
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194CLEANING OF SCHOOLS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18711, 17 May 1924, Page 8
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