THE PAYMENT OF BUILDING GRANTS.
The Timaru Herald speaks very strongly about tlit- Government withholding from Education Boards the paymeut of building grants. It says : " This year the Government not only will not pay but they will not give the Boards the slightest inkling of what they may expect to be paid. Threefourths of the financial year are already gone. The boards have either left the necessary building undone, or else have raised funds on their own responsibility at a high rate of interest. And yet they cannot see any certain pi-ospect of obtaining the building grant which was voted for them by Parliament as from the Ist of last Aptil. A more beggarly or discreditable system could hardly be conceived. It is a common thing for the Ministers, the Agent-General, and others to boast of the extraordinary development of public education in New Zealand, and to represent the colony as being far in advance of the Mother Country in that respect. Wherever any of these puffs about public education in New Zealand appear, there ought to be attached to them a statement that we borrow the funds for school buildings in London from year to year, and that the Government shirk payment of the money so long that every Board of Education in the colony is over head and ears in debt! "
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/KUMAT18840111.2.13
Bibliographic details
Kumara Times, Issue 2300, 11 January 1884, Page 3
Word Count
223THE PAYMENT OF BUILDING GRANTS. Kumara Times, Issue 2300, 11 January 1884, Page 3
Using This Item
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in