ALL ON THE SAME LEVEL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16347, 23 May 1927, Page 7

ALL ON THE SAME LEVEL

. URGENCY OF SCHOOL WORKS A MOTION NOT SECONDED A month or so ago the Hawke’s Bay Education Board decided upon the works to he. done in their order of urgency, but that decision did not meet with the approval of Mr. J. R. Kirk, who, in accordance with notice given at last, week’s meeting of the board, moved that the resolution of March 18, dealing with the urgency list, be rescinded and the list reconsidered. However, Mr. Kirk failed to get a seconder to his motion, and it lapsed.. Mr. Kirk mentioned that a deputation of the board had recently waited ou the Minister of Education and placed before him the position regarding each of the matters on the urgency' lint. The deputation was told that the requests were quite reasonable, but there was not sufficient money to grant all. However, the Minister advised them that he. would later forward his decision. In view & that it. might bo reasonable on his part to await the Minister’s reply, but he had a sugges-,. tion to make that would probably help the Minister jo make up his mind. In the board’s long list it- had decided that not one. was of greater urgency than another, and that was what the Minister was faced- with. .“ In' nne of the schools conditions were intolerable, and those were the cases where the Minister should give hie first attention. Wairoa, r fe Karaka. and Mabora were three of those cases, and his suggestion was that they should he placed at the top of tile list, and Hie others follow in their present order. The three meant an expenditure of only between £SOOO and £6OOO. He hoped members would support such a rearrangement of the urgency list. Members, however, thought it better to await the Minister’s reply', and did not support Mr. Kirk.