RETRENCHING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 674, 26 November 1909, Page 9

RETRENCHING.

: : : :;.EDUCATION BOABD, : \- . ■ Seeking to effect a saving wherover possible, ,the rEducatioii Board, at its meeting yester-. day,' 'decided, on the recommendation of itsFinance; Committee, , to retrench its expenditure in advertising, and resolved that : vacancy advertisements be , inserted, in' the three city papersj-twice in two and once in the third, in Tegular succession; that tenders ments-be insorted in local papers as at present, - and,- where it may: be -advisable for silarge work, in one city paper; that statutory advertisements be inserted tho number of times required by law. " ■■'.'■ . ' ": } "■ '■- Tho.proposal inet with considerable opposition, but was carried by a margin of one vote. ■ : Mr; A. AV. Hogg, M.P., put in a strong plea for'the country papers,' and'asked that the question. be : deferred for. ■ further i consideration.;.- ;".■ :-.•. ■ . ■ : '■• ';." ■.'• .;. ■ ■■. :' Mr. A. H. yile objected on; the grounds that the proposal was, .in effect, a' recision of a previous decision by the board to increase its advertising. k Before reverting to tho prior system, the board' should proceed in proper form, and rescind its previous < resolution. 'It was explained that as the result of. the policy o£: increased : advertisings '. -adopted'.last, year, the expenditure under ■ that head had doubled itself. , .". •. :.'■: . V . ■' - '..Mr.i J.G. W. Aitken; contended that; the board was bound to.conduct, its business economically.' Ho. was of opinion 'that no real benefit.had .accrued; from the increased advertising.'/: On the contrary, tho expenditure had gone up from JEIO7 odd to : J8239 odd. : :