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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1717, 25 January 1905, Page 29

Mr W. H. Field, who is a ■member of the Wellington Education Board, spoke in reference to the finances of that body in the course of Ins speech at Ohariu on Friday night. Its poverty, he said, was due to two causes. It had spent on technical education the sum of £14,000, most of which ought to have gone to primary education, .and many thousands had also been expended out of overdraft for new buildings, the money for which could fairly have been demanded from the Government. At the same time, he pointed out, the State had benefited by this expenditure. A cablegram from Adelaide states that Sir Charles Todd, Commonwealth De-puty-Postmaster-General for South Australia, has been granted six months’ leave prior to retirement