EDUCATION GRANTS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16853, 5 June 1920, Page 10

EDUCATION GRANTS.

— ♦ CANTERBURY NEGLECTED. Complaints were ventilated at the meeting of tho Canterbury Education Board yesterday of the way in which Canterbury is stinted in the matter of education grants. Mr E. .H. Andrews (chairman) said that the Board should take up a determined attitudo regarding the Education Department's policy in giving grants lor school buildings. While in some places money seemed to be absolutely given away, many of the Canterbury Board's applications were refused. He compared this with the way Wanganui was treated, and said that Mr F. Pirani fought for and demanded grants for Wanganui. Although tho Canterbury Board had failed to get £3300, which amount was required to build an adequate school at Cobden, near Greymouth, about £43,000 was granted for a single school at Palmerston North, and. a further sum of £10,000 or £15,000 had been granted for an infant school at the Same place. Some reason should be 'given why some Boards were generously treated in the way of grants while the Canterbury Board suffered. Thero was no reason why PalmerstoA North should receive two such large sums while the Canterbury Board wheD it asked for the five or six thousand pounds necessary for the building of the Cobden school was informed that the application was excessive, and the Department could not grant it. Mr J. Jamieson said that the.Minister of Education should be asked to meet the Board to discuss this matter, and, on his motion, it was resolved that a special meeting of the Board be held at a time when it would suit the Minister to attend.