EDUCATION BOARDS TO CEASE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 July 1910, Page 3

EDUCATION BOARDS TO CEASE.

DEPARTMENTAL CONTROL. The Financial Statement delivered on Tuesday evening, by Sir Joseph "Ward, mentioned that the Local Government Bill provides lor a transfer to the new Councils of all the work and functions of our existing Education Boards, care being taken that this important branch of till© country's work is to be carried out by a divisional committee and under more effective conditions than exist- at present. Under the extended .jurisdiction of the local authority the Government propose? to transfer the work of building and maintenance of schools, providing the wliole of tile nvuiey for the former a.nd a con tribution for the latter. To \n sure the decentralisation of the maintenance votes now annually passed by Parliament T propose to provide a sum at the beginning of I f be system of C'2"o,f)oo por milium. This wdl require to be done upon a proper basis.