GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 135, 6 July 1909, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

COST OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS. By leleqraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night, -the Hon. (;. Fowlds, Minister for Education, stated to-day Hint in making his recent remarks at Cliristclmrch on tlio subject of local contributions toward the cost of education, be had specially m mind the question of gram 1 lor educational buildings. The present system, under which the whole of the money lor buildings was found by the tiO\eminent was unsatisfactory in that there was no incentive to lioards to practise economy; whilst the Department, in the. absence of reports of its mvn, was not in an advantageous position to the merits of the mlfor1. applications, lie suggested that the time will probably come when a system , defraying tlie cast of school buildings by local contributions would be senomly considered,

LOCAL BODIES AND INDUSTRIAL AWARDS.

mi, ,~. Dnnedin, Monday. Al " l ' ,tratlo » Court discussed "the question of exemption of public bodies from the operation of industrial awards. After legal argument, the president stata. ir ( nn»stin» "'us «n important i.ie, affecting all unions of the DoTJTf '* tfioujdit a"nise should he Stated for ,-, , )f Appoa!'.s opinion .19 to «lie!licr jiulihc bodies were intended to coiiie within the meaning of the Act. 1„ ||„, ])BSti th( , <;min h ceitainly acted as if such bodies were included, but Uie question hud never been raised. He advised that the union !iefir°+ I'' S, ! n "' ll ''"'l'loy counsel la foie the Appeal Court.

SLIP OX OTACIO CEXTIiAL. , ~ . , Dnnedin, Monday. A slip of about n thousand yards'occurred on the Otugo Central.' A tan* of men is clearing it with the hope of fretting the line free by six o'clock. ■Meanwhile traflic is suspended.