TELEPHONES IN SCHOOLS
DEPARTMENT ASKED TO PAY. REFUSAL BY THE MINISTER. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Aug. 14. On behalf of the Wellington school committees Mr. R. McKean, M.P., recently requested permission from the Minister of Education to pay for school telephones out of Government grants. _ The acting-Minister, the Hon. J. Bitchener, in reply, states that the fact that few schools have telephones shows that they are not an essential convenience and suggests that in order to provide for emergencies arrangements might be made to use neighbouring telephones. H says he does not think he is justified either in amending the regulations governing the expenditure of grants by school committees or in approaching the Postmaster-General for concessions.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1933, Page 7
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