SCHOOL COMMITTEES' ALLOWANCES. WELLINGTON, August 26.

Otago Witness, Issue 2529, 3 September 1902, Page 14

SCHOOL COMMITTEES' ALLOWANCES. WELLINGTON, August 26.

A large deputation of inemlciv. of cuty suburban school committees waited on the Minister of Education and pointed oi.i the neglect of the Education Boards to make them ?.o adequate allowance to meet expenses which were necessitated by th* upkeep of the Echools. It was stated tbar the trouble had lately become so acute that a revolt of local school committees was imminent. The Hon. W. C. Walker, in reply, said it ««» »&ly fai £ t° tlie Uoveru- t

I ment to point out that i* Lnd ira'lo thins?-, far better in education mutters than they , had bern before. He symputhii:pd very mucn with the ca<e presented by the deputation. He was hi very much the samp position himself, for he had ro make 20s do for what he often i-equired A Qs, for ho wa^ nyt prepared to recommend that the Mow ] tflc for school committ-ef, be ma<le direct "/a them. Boards were somewhat *-oie o\cr teachero' clas-incatsnu s>ubjett. and if the department further interfered there might be further trouble. He valued boards too much to make trouble untieceebarily. He could give no other answer. All he could say was that during the last three or four j

y. ars Kdiu-ation Boards' all-cmai'ca^ had in cTL-^s^d, uikl t'jey dliuuld Lave more in«iuey to gnf < oinmtttees now than they had lv previous veus Ihe n:a4tPr was one for arranseinsut between comm.ttces and boar<.'.=. Iho >-[>(-rfriary of the Morison Busli (CutiIcrburv) School Committee ha 1 ; forwarded to the C'cKjiual Secretary, on behalf of the children atteudioz the school, a parrel of 50 of their prize books, with a request that they be cent to th© Colonial Secretary at the Cape for distribution among some of the Boer children.