“WASTE OF MONEY.”

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1923, Page 3

“WASTE OF MONEY.”

TRIP OBJECTED TO

The decision of the Canterbury Ism

sation Hoard to send three of its members on a visit to Ilarihaii, South land, to report on the educational mods of the district was commented upon uufavouraoly by Mr. A. IVverill at Friday's meeting of the Board. Mr. 1"* eriV said that it would he a waste oi iiiofmv to send wine members over i" the West. Coast. The chairman if the Board (Mr. 11. Rignell) and another member resided on the Coast, and ihi.T he able l<» attend to the matter. Peverill expressed the opinion that if certain portions of the distri-t required visiting the whole Board should make the trip. Mr. C. S. Thompson said that Mr t’wverill was not consistent. He objected on the grounds of expense ti sending three members to the l oust, and yet lie advocated that the whulo Board should go. The matter had hem, fairlv well threshed out at the hist meeting of the Hoard and the Board considered that three members should visit the district, who were not conversant with it. He was one of 'he members selected lo go, hut lie was not at all anxious for the trip. Mr. IVverill said that the fact that the Board had decided to send the throe member* to the Coast inferrcil that the two members who resided on the ( oust did not know anything about their nvn district.

Mr. "Wild said that tin* position at ~Tfarihari was acute as there were <hddren in the district growing up without „ny education, lie was quite as conservative of the Hoard's lumls as Mi. There was the question here of erecting an additional school or conHnlidatioo, and closing some ol loose now in the locality. On a recent occasion when the same difficulty existed in another portion of the district, he, uitt. .Mr. Eignell and the district inspector, had visited the place hut their 1 canimons recommendation was vetoed by tlie Chief Inspector without whose approval the Department would not netand nothin" was done. For this reason, at the last nicotine of the Hoard he had expressed the opinion that Mr. T. Hughes, chairman of the appointments committee, and Air. A\ . A. Brock (t hief Inspector') should visit the district. However, the Hoard thought that one mem her was not sufficient and decided to send Mr. Thompson, chairman of the finance committee, and Mr. .f. Mar.c, chairman of the buildings committee,

as well. The chairman: The whole matter was settled at the last meeting of the Hoard. It was Mr. T’everiU’s own business that he was not at that meeting. ' Mr. Hughes: As fur as Mr. Peverill is concerned, it is a question of Entail rebuking sin. lie has been xo the Coast twice. Mr. Hughes added that it was the wish of 1 lie Hoard that the three members in question should go. It was not their own wish that they should go. Mr. \Y. R. Spencer said that Mr. Peverill's remarks were very narrow. Mr. Peverill. 1 rise to a point of order. AY. Armitage: Now you are getting it! Mr. Spencer said that Mr. Peverill was lint consistent and referred to the -fact that Mr. Peverill was on* of two «M*iiiemhers of the Hoard who visited the Chatham Islands recently. Personally, he thought that visit was quite, unnecessary and that the whole business could have been arranged from the Hoard room. Air. Peverill: You are wrong. lifter some further discussion the matter dropped.