SCHOOL EXPENDITURE IN THE SOUTH.
The following remarks by a correspondent of the Auckland morning paper will amuse Canterbury people :—ln visiting the South recently I was astonished to see the manner in which public money had been squandered and thrown away in educational establishments and institutions. In one case I saw a large stone residence for a schoolmaster, which must have cost £3OOO or £4OOO, standing empty, because the master could not afford to furnish and keep up such a palatial residence. In another place there was an average attendance of about ten scholars in a magnificent building which would have given ample accommodation to ten times the number. Then in the South there are colleges, high schools, grammar schools, normal training schools, and an agricultural school, all splendidly endowed, but the latter is without a single pupil, whilst the results achieved in other cases do not justify the expenditure. These facts point to the necessity of some adjustment in educational matters between different parts of the colony, and to this end Mr Rolloston’s attention should be directed when in Auckland.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1854, 31 January 1880, Page 3
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