FREE EDUCATION
LABOUR’S OBJECTIVE “LIP SERVICE” FROM OTHERS If the Labour Party is returned to power, it wifi guarantee to make education free from the primary school to the university. Mr. M. J. Savage, Labour candidate for Auckland West, was definite on this point when he addressed open-air meetings in four parts of his electorate last evening. Other parties, he stated, gave “lip service” to similar principles, but when it came to carrying the proposals out. they failed utterly. The system today was not free, as poor parents had to face the burden of finding school requisites. The tendency to-day was to cut down expenditure in education, but the candidate doubted if that were the right economy. Dealing with advances to settlers and workers, Mr. Savage stated that the combined lending of the Rural Advances Office and Advances to Settlers branch last year was over £2, 000,000 less than the amounts for the previous year. The Advances to Workers Department had given out over £1,000,000 less than the sum for the previous year. Labour’s policy was to extend the activities of these departments to provide cheaper money for development purposes. Votes of thanks and confidence were carried tit all the meetings.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 510, 13 November 1928, Page 17
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201FREE EDUCATION Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 510, 13 November 1928, Page 17
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