TARANAKI SCHOLARSHIPS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 97, 24 April 1912, Page 5

TARANAKI SCHOLARSHIPS.

WANGANUI DELEGATES’ ACTION CONDEMNED. The action of the delegates from tiie Wanganui Education Board at the recent conference over the Opaku education reserves, in approaching the Prime Minister with a view to establishing a secondary school at Moumahaki, was referred to in condemnatory terms last night at the Education Board meeting, says the “News.” The matter was introduced when a paragraph was read from the chairman’s report embodying the result of the conference. The chairman, in sup plementing the report, drew the hoard’s attention to the attempt that had been made in Hawera to divert the funds from university purposes in order to use them for merely secondary purposes at Moumahaki. Mr Kennedy considered that they should jealously conserve the fund for its original purpose. Mr It. Masters spoke pretty strongly on the matter. He considered it a contemptible action on tne part o; the Wanganui delegates after then proposals had been vetoed in tne conference to endeavour to got behind them in this way. He suggested that they should strongly protest. Mr Morton moved that the board enter its protest against any proposal to divert any portion of the funds of the Opaku reserve for the purpose ol establishing an agricultural college ir. connection with the Moumahaki State farm, the board being of opinion that such funds should be used only for the purposes sot out in the Act, viz., to provide a university education for Taranaki children, and that this board dissents from the action of the Wanganui Education delegates to the late conference in suggesting to the Prime Minister that such a diversion should be made.