TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 28, 26 September 1912, Page 6

TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

A MATTER OF FINANCE. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, September 26. Replying to a deputation from the Wanga'uui Education Board, the Minister (the Hon. J. Allen) said he was net prepared to say definitely what he would recommend as to technical schools, but he did think they ought to get more for the amount spent in technical education than they did at present. He might possibly make recommendations to the Cabinet on the subject. He had been advised not to carry out the disestablishment of high schools without legislation. The whole difficulty was one of finance. It was difficult to comply with all requests for new buildings and residences. He understood when he stated that the proponed vote for that purpose was £119,000, and of that sum to llth September had been spent £46,094, leaving a balance of £75,900, but the liabilities and commitments on that date was over £127,000, nearly the total vote, so that the Government was committed for the expenditure of a good part of next year's vote. He had received a schedule of urgent work from the Department entailing an expenditure of £14,802, and expected another in a fortnight.