OTAGO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE

Otago Witness, Issue 3292, 18 April 1917, Page 53

OTAGO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE

The Committee of Management of the Otago Educational Institute held its monthly meeting on Saturday morning, when there' was a good attendance. A good deal of business of a routine nature was dealt with in addition to business of a more important character. Mr Flamank, treasurer for the Richardson Memorial Fund, announced that subscriptions were coming in very satisfactorily, and it was agreed to put up a memorial stone with portion of the money sent in, and to leave consideration of what should be done with the remainder to stand over until the next meeting. The secretary of the, N.Z.E.I, sent down two resolutions for branches to answer, one dealing with the daylight saving movement, the other with a recommendation that the Government be asked to grant increments to compensate civil servants for the decreased purchasing power caused by war prices. The daylight saving principle was unanimously endorsed. On the latter question the opinion was expressed that we should all be quite willing to suffer monetarily in this great crisis, though pupil teachers, probationers, and students were receiving niggardly treatment, but that the Government should take effective measures to reduce the cost of living by putting export duties on necessaries of life. One member drew attention to the unpatriotio expenditure on motor cars and other luxuries, arguing that to the extent luxuries were imported expenses were charged against profits, a-~:l the dominion in effect was subsidising the importing of luxuries and decreasing the taxation on profits. It was decided to ask the Education Board to recommend committees to close schools in Show Week,