AUCKLAND NEWS.
Per Press Association, AUCKLAND, last night. The Board of Education had before it to-day a copy of a letter sent by the Chairman to Mr P. E. Baume, M.H.R., explaining the grounds on which the Board considered Auckland was not receiving a fair share of Government grants for school buildings. The letter points out that according to the Minister’s report ordinary grants were supposed to be distributed on the bases of the average attendance in the several education districts, yet Auckland district, with a roll number of 30,113, received only £9950 last year, while North Canterbury and Otago districts, with a roll number of 29,031, had received £12,800, notwithstanding the fact that 24 of their buildings were of stone or brick, while all those of Auckland, except two, were built of wood. In regard to special grants for building schools in newly-settled districts, the Board had long been dissatisfied with the extraordinary delay in dealing with applications for special grants. The Board deided to ask the Government to establish a district high school at Wellesley street School. It was stated that much inconvenience was at present experienced owing to the fact that Auckland did not possess a district high school.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1005, 25 September 1903, Page 1
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