EDUCATION GRANTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 807, 3 February 1910, Page 3

EDUCATION GRANTS.

Referring to the curtailment of Education grants Mr F. Pirani, chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, says that in the Wanganui district during the last three years over ,/Voo has had to be paid out of the maintenance fund for deficient Government grants for new buildings, for sewerage and £Soo for additions, As an example of the hardens lately placed on boards, Mr Pirani points out that stamps and telegrams now cost a year, exchange on teachers’ salaries £so, and interest on overdraft (owing to dilatory payments by the Department) £2OO a year.

The local school committee are looking forward to a grant of about £6q to subsidise an amount raised locally to carry out certain necessary improvements such as erecting a dividing fence between the boys’ ac.d girls’ outhouses, completiug the unfinished Park street fencing, and laying off and fencing a portion of the ground for agricultural purposes. The local townspeople, through a special effort, have contributed their quota, and the Committee naturally looks to the Boctid to bear its share, but under the circumstances it would appear very doubtful whether the Board will contribute anything.