EDUCATION GRANTS

Waipa Post, Volume 41, Issue 3186, 9 August 1930, Page 4

EDUCATION GRANTS

SOME INTERESTING FIGURES. SCHOOLS IN WAITOMO ELECTORATE. If activity in education matters is, as is usually credited, a "feather in the cap" of the M.P. for the district, then Mr W. J. Broadfoot, who represents Waitomo electorate, has cause to don the headgear of an American Indian, judging by the following list of grants approved for schools in the electorate since he assumed office:— Otorohanga school, new two-room-ed manual training building, £1,768; Otorohanga, equipment, £200; Otorohanga, site extension, 83 acres, £100; Otorohanga, drainage, £22; Kio Kio, septic tank, £88; Otewa, new site, 4 acres, £101; Otewa, new two-roomed school, £1,221; Kihikihi, remodelling school, £131; Ngutunui, new school and site, £643; Honikiwi, new school and site, £648; Awamarino, shelter shed, £SO; Pio Pio, new two roomed manual training building, £2,034; Oniao, new school, £560; Oniao, site expenses, £22; Te Kawa, additional room, £463; Te Kuiti, dental clinic, £190; Te Kuiti, additions to secondary department, £2,026; Te Awamutu, remodelling and additions, £4,074; Te Awamutu, site extension, £1,000; Waimiha, new school, £1,166; Awakino, septic tank, £104; Mokau, movable classroom, £181; Whareorino, removable school, £76; Whareorino, teacher's bach, £166; Arohena, new school, £585; Wharepuhunga, new school, £700; Kaeaea, additions, £144; Rewa, shelter shed, £35; Kopaki, new school and site, £7OO. Total, £19,198.