TOWN-PLANNING AND COLLEGES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 217, 7 June 1919, Page 8

TOWN-PLANNING AND COLLEGES

Sir,—Thank you for your courtesy ii inserting iny inquiry' and taking torn, trouble lo answer it. But your loot uoto cannot bo considered very euligbl ening as it does not answer my qucstim as to tho amount of tho grant for tie Hutt School,..though it has .made elmthat the Government has given iw grmt yet for the Oirls' College. _ •

Jt is weil known that the lion. !!r. Ilaimn, Minister of Education, lakes a, great interest in schools. Surely he us not refused to secure a grant for so deserving an institution as the Girls'. Allege. ' The:secretary, Mr, Powle^,.states hat grants for buildings ore fin a. cajllalioti 'basis. If so, the Girls' Colfgo should certainly have had as larg. a grout as thejioys' College, and considerably more than the Hutt. I shall bo glad lo know how the grants were a'.ocatcd to the two colleges. Please do t»t think me troublesome if 1 again ask yu to ascertain tho amount of these grant; (1) Boys' College, (i) Girls' College, () the Ilutt.—l am, etc., ANOTHER PAHKNT.

■ [Grants for secondary school buildings ere not made 011 a capitation lmsis. Mr. C. 11.I 1 . J'owlcs did not say that they wero so made. Capitation grants 'for secondary schools are of..regular recurrence, and •■"le. made only to meet: the ordinary expenses of upkeep, such as salaries and similar things. Building smuts, on tho other hand, are not made, ttt specified interval?. A building grant is made only after the Education Department, with tho support of the Minister, lias' convinced Cabinet 'that money is required for a new school building or for extensive alterations or additions to nil existing building. Each application for a building grant is considered separately upon'its merits, tiiul a building grant may 1» made <it any time when circumstances warrant. '.Some years ago a grant'of about ,0011(1 was mado-for the brick addition to the Ciirls' College, and another grant of a similar amount was made for a brick addition to the Boys' College. >iu announcement about the amount to 'iiu granted for the proposed Hull Valley School has yet been made. It is not even known what tho grant for the site will be; and the plans for the building have not been commenced.]