EDUCATION BOARDS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1530, 11 August 1905, Page 3

EDUCATION BOARDS.

THE USUAL COMPLAINT.

Per Press Association. Auckland, last night,

At foe Education Board meeting yesterslay, the secreiary reported that the bmidine account was overdrawn by £4904, and ths usual quarterly instalment o£ Government grant, £2500, bad not yet arrived. The annual grant of. £12,000 was' not enough .to carry on the work of the Board. The amount allocattd to Auckland was arrived at in some wondorfui way by me Education Committee of the House, and was based on the number oE schools. These were largely old wooden buildings whiou neoded ronowal* . t Mr Parr eaid the Education.Oommiltae should be wiped out. It caused more lbs leas* <b. Beerf could work upon was £20,000 a year, the vote should be increased to that a “? U waa decided that foe Government Bbouia be asked to increase foe' subsidy- fo £2O 000 in the next year, and that S quarterly grant, which was now overdue, should be forthwith paid. p nn The report o£ Chief Inspector Pe^ 10 foe infant sohooi accommodation at the City sohoole was laid before the Bear . Mr Hobbs wanted to know why the promise of a £SOOO grant to the Board by the Government several months ago had ee'n a 1a do said it was a shame and that the children should have to

baWht id a lavatory, for want ot apace. S Sobb 8 moved, “That an wgonl Moolicataon bo made for special grants for ■gf'SS.ti-w.-' N;p;« schools, which are overcrowded. OS£Sfi£’» Eduontion ■Denartcnent, stating that the InspectorGeneral would be in Auckland shortly, and would confer with the Board » regard to Minister for Education bad promised that two high schools would be granted to io. “ a ■» ,17m ta »..• *»»"> dren in Ponsonby who were clamorin for admission to the high schools, and tuey «onld not find an entrance because the Grammar School would not take them a jt E ias decided “o send an argent teles™= S £ roadmand Newmarket schools distrjct bigh roaa sou H i m Uar request was made for Sng tbeVrs of the Oiahubu school.