SCHOOL BUILDING AND THE TIMBER SHORTAGE
—___$ A DIFFICULT POSITION. By Teleerarh—Pres« Ar.iocUtton. Hamilton, April 10. Replying to a deputation asking for »r addition to the Leamington School, the 'Minister of Education (Hon. C. J. Parr) said his Department v...0s at present in what might almost be described as nn ironical position. Parliament had beon very liberal in supplying money for the institution of a big school-building programme, but although the Department had money and claims for dozens of new buildings'and hundreds of applications for additions and improvements, tho greatest difficulty was expsriehced in getting supplied of timber. It seemed' to him that the Department and local lxxlics nere going to find the greatest difficulty in future in erecting now buildings. Ho would do his duty_ as far as he could to education by securing timber. Its claims would Ixi placed among the very first. He might ask the Government to give education a prior claim on tho timber supplies, even over workers' tomes, as schools wore the first necessity of any community.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 168, 12 April 1920, Page 4
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172SCHOOL BUILDING AND THE TIMBER SHORTAGE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 168, 12 April 1920, Page 4
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