SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 457, 19 May 1932, Page 15

SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

Maintenance Grant Reduced By £20,000. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 18. Intimation was received by the Wellington Education Board at a meeting to-day that Cabinet has decided to reduce by £20,000 the grant for maintenance of primary school buildings for the whole Dominion. The money available pro! bly will be allocated to the various districts on the basis of estimated requirements. The chairman, Mr T. Forsyth, said he had forwarded an emphatic protest, not against the reduction, but against the basis of allocation. A fair basis should be the number and size of buildings in a district, and not the estimated requirements. A district which had looked after its buildings carefully was penalised, districts which had not looked after their buildings scoring at the expense of others. “If Wellington was not so modest,” remarked one member, “it could easily claim the whole amount available, so many school buildings needing repairs or remodelling.” The chairman’s action in protesting was approved.