SCHOOL EXPENSES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 857, 8 November 1916, Page 10

SCHOOL EXPENSES.

MATTER OF INCIDENTALS. A SCHEME TO BE ARRANGED. In accordance wilh previous notice Mr Peverill moved at the meeting of the Education Board this morning the following motion:— “That a revision of incidental allowances to school committee be made, and steps taken to grant them a more liberal scale than at present proposed.”

Correspondence from committees, protesting against reduction in allowances was read.

Speaking to the motion,. Mr Annitage said that the Finance Committee had carefully gone into the matter, and had ascertained that at the end of the present financial year ihc hoard would have an overdraft of £Bl5. 7'he £2OOO spoken of by ihc Director of Education as having accrued to the new board, would be more than absorbed by fresh liabilities.

Mr Maze said that he could not support the motion. The board’s finances could not stand the payment of a higher capitation.

Mr Andrews urged that (he only course that the board could now adopt was to grade the schools in ihe matter of incidental allowances, paying most to those which most needed it.

Mr Hamilton suggested an addition of tlie words “providing a scheme can be devised, which will inflict no injustice on country schools.”

The motion, with Mr Hamilton’s addition, was carried, and consideration of Mr Andrews’s suggestion was referred to the next meeting of the board, Mr Andrews and the Chairman of Committees to draw up a scheme in the meantime.