BUILDING PROBLEMS

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160726, 12 August 1920, Page 5

BUILDING PROBLEMS

ULTIMATUM TO EDUCATION BOARDS. (By Telegraph—Special to "Herald.”) WELLINGTON, August 11. The Minister for Education is endeavouring to solve a difficult problem: catching up arrears in school buildings. Ho is badly handicapped owing to lack of knowledge regarding the relative urgency of the large number of requests. He baa informed your correspondent that early in. April the Education Department asked the nine Education Boards to. indicate their building requirements for the next three years and the order of importance of the various items. This is necessary, so that the problem might be systematically tackled and the most urgent cases taken first, but only one, a small Board, has supplied the necessary details, while the Department continues to receive, almost daily, further requests for buildings. “The building question is so difficult,” remarked the Hon. Mr Parr, “that it cannot be overcome in a piecemeal, unsystematic, and wasteful fashion. We must have a proper scheme to work upon, and until the information I have asked for is supplied I must refuse to make any further building grants.”