WELLINGTON NOTES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16448, 29 May 1919, Page 2

WELLINGTON NOTES.

CONVEYANCE OP CHILDREN TO SCHOOL. PROPOSED BOARDING ALLOWANCES. BY TKLUQnAPH.' —OWN COEEBSPONDESX. , WELLINGTON, May 28. A matter .of interest to Taranaki country districts'was discussed to-day, when a deputation from another province placed before the Minister for Education (Hon. J. A. Hanan) a request for the payment by the Government of conveyance allowance to pupils who travel by coach ox* other vehicle to attend technical or secondary schools, in other words, for the same allowances as are payable in the case of pupils attending public schools, m- •» eluding the secondary department or district high schools. It was pointed out that pupils who travel by rail are conveyed free to the secondary schools and technical high schools, and therefore pupils using other means ot conveyance should be similarly treated. The Minister said that last year £3503 was paid for the conveyance ot pupils by rail to secondary schools, £ll4l to district high Bohoolb, and £3139 to technical schools. It would be impossible to make special inquiry (so his department advised him), to estimate the cost of paying conveyance allowance to pijpils who travel! by other means to secondary and technical high schools. Roughly speaking, hewas disposed to think that £SOOO or £6OOO annually would he required. ■ With reference to the claim that a boarding allowance of, say, os per - week, should be made. This item woffid run into a very large sum—about £2d,000 or £25,000 annually. To agree to these two proposals to extend conveyance and boarding allowances to pupils of secondary and technical nigh schools would mean that an additional sum of not Joss than £28,000 or £31,000 would have to he found each year. The two proposals made the subject a very large question for consideration, and he would go into the matter fun - thcr with his department, with a view to coming to a conclusion on the mat-' ter. SALE OF DAIRY PRODUCE.

Tfio announcement, as tabled, that the Imperial Government does not mitend to purchase the new make of Canadian cheese was received with great interest by those in the trade, states the Post commercial writer. It would seem evident that New Zealand producers will have to make their own arrangements for the disposal of their outputs next season. The Canadian price for last season’s make as sold to the Imperial Government was roughly equivalent to Hid per lb, f.0.b., Montreal, and'the price paid for New Zealand cheese was Wild, f.0.b., New Zealand main ports, for first grade in each case. . . The pending visit to the United States and then Great Britain of two leading of the dairy industry in Taranaki will no doubt ho productive of much valuable information to producers as to marketing, shipping and other matters relative to the export of both butter and cheese to the United Kingdom. This information should be to hand in ample time for use on the termination of the Imperial Government contract to buy New Zealand cheese and butter on July 31, 1920.