SCHOOL COMMITTEES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 17

SCHOOL COMMITTEES

DATE OF CONFERENCES STANDARDISING CAPITATION [by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday Future conferences of the Dominion Federation of School Committees' Associations will be held not later than the month prior to tho commencement of the last session of Parliament for the year, according to a decision reached at the conference at New Plymouth. The conference adopted a remit from the Manawatu Association that the Minister of Education, the Hon. P. Eraser, be requested to standardise the method and date of payment of capitation by education boards, to ensure that committees secure payment in 12 instalments, payable in advance; and that the method of computing capitation bo based on that in operation in Taranaki. That committees be empowered to expend up to five per cent of their capitation for purposes not included in the schedule was a Wellington remit carried. The importance of ground improvements was emphasised, and the conferenco urged that boards bo given power to allocate money for that purpose. The Minister will be urged to make provision for tho payment of the rental of school telephones to bo made a charge against the school committees' account. Provision by tho department of the cost of tho installation of hot water systems in school residences was suggested in a Southland remit which was carried. The Government will be asked to arrange with local bodies to provide water for schools free of charge. Strong support was forthcoming for a motion urging tho Government to restore subsidies on amounts raised for school purposes by voluntary contributions.