THE SAMOAN TRIP.
The Wellington Education Board meeting yesterday, Mr J. P. Shand moved: That this Board enter an emphatic protest against the action of the Government in arranging an unnecessary visit to Samoa and other Islands in the South Seas, thereby expending large sums of public money that might be circulated to greater advantage in combatting many problem? of our time.
In the course of the discussion the chairman (Mr Forsyth) pointed out that the Government should nut be blamed, as Parliament had decided that the trip should be ■made. V
The motion was defeated. Mr G. >London:’“Does .that mean that".the Board approves, of the trip?’’ The chairman: “The Board-does not approve of the trip, bur it dots disapprove of the 'motion as it L worded.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2083, 29 January 1920, Page 3
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127THE SAMOAN TRIP. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2083, 29 January 1920, Page 3
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