EDUCATION BOARD DEPUTATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 77, 27 May 1881, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARD DEPUTATION.

The Education Board's Building Fund is exhausted. At the meeting on Wednesday Mr Notman submitted a statement showing there was only a credit balance of £160 to the fund in question, whereas the liabilities amounted to £190. Mr Snelson at once cited the case of the Wellington Board, which was a short time apro in similar straits, and obtained a promise from the Government to cover an overdraft of £8,000. He thought they should make a similar application. The idea was too good to be lost. Members of an Education Board know as well as any other set of men the generosity of a Govern, inent when the country is on the

brink of a general election, and straightway a deputation consisting of Messrs Watt and Sanson was ap pointed to interview the Minister of Education, and arrange for a sum of money to enable the Board to carry on urgently needed buildings within the district, The object of the deputation is one with which we heartily sympathise. The Education Board is now doing good work, by spending all the available fuuds in the erection of schools in outlying districts. In the past it has spent unnecessarily large sums' in adorning the Town of Wanganui with splendid buildings. With expenditure of that kind we have no sympathy, but we will support heartily any application made, as we believe the present one is, for the purpose of enabling the children of settlers in outlying districts to receive and enjoy the advantages of our very costly system of education.