SCHOOL COMMITTEES' ASSOCIATION.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 1.
A conference of representative School Committees' Associations opened to-day. Mr, J. A. Nash, M.P., presided. The chairman considered education had been starved, and moved a motion urging that the Government increase the annual grant to at least £3,000,000. This was carried. . . .
It was decided that a federation oil School Committees' Associations be formed.
Among the resolutions carried was one recommending that an additional capitation allowance of. 2/~ should be made by the Department.
The Government was urged to supply all primary school books and requisites free, and no concession or subsidies be granted to private schools.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17654, 2 September 1919, Page 5
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