EDUCATION FUNDS
MINISTER BOMBARDED WITH REQUESTS. INCREASED EXPENDITURE IMPOSSIBLE. (Special to the Times.) WELLINGTON, May 13. Several educational conferences have been proceeding in Wellington this week, and the Minister has been bombarded with requests for improvements in the education system, further concessions to teachers, and so forth. He indicated when replying to one of the deputation that the real question was not his willingness to find more money, but rather his ability to maintain education expenditure at its present level. The education vote had more than doubled since 1914, and white he wished to maintain it and hoped to do so, he had to face the fact that the financial stringency might require retrench ment in State departments. His opinion was that whatever economics might be necessary should not be at the expanse of education, and he believed that his colleagues would be disposed to support him in that opinion, but it would be idle for him to propose increases in expenditure at the present juncture.
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Southland Times, Issue 19224, 14 May 1921, Page 5
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166EDUCATION FUNDS Southland Times, Issue 19224, 14 May 1921, Page 5
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