EDUCATION FINANCES.
[Per Press Association.] ti w • EUNMHN, March' o. Jne Minister of Education was approached by the University Council this morning for a. further grant of £2OOO uc complete the Home Science buildDie. deputation also asked the IX partment to liquidate, a portion of i he. debenture debt of £7OOO. and iUvited us sympathy with a scheme for a children s department at the museum loi geography and ethnology teaching. Air Hanan announced his sanction to a giant ol £IOOO for home .science, M eo ' lld g/ve without consulting if C ; ibltlG >,, H " Promised that the debenture debt would bo considered when.the whole subject of the finances of university colleges was being conddered. He also expressed sympathy with the scheme to interest children in natural objects and stimulate their obdTn n ‘ P °c rwi T ho ostabli shment of a, Chair of Ethnology would he anproved under conditions. The Minister took the opportunity of saving that from the numerous applications made it appeared that the increased vote for school buildings would not he enough and would have to bo increased bevond (he £IOO.OOO whore, it now stood. ‘ Air Hanan inspected a, property recommended for purchase for a probation home. He proceeds to Christchurch to-nioiTow.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12569, 5 March 1919, Page 6
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