EDUCATIONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 306, 4 February 1910, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL.

HOX. FOWLDS' REPLIES TO CRITICISMS. i By Telegraph.—Press' Association. Christchurch, Last Night. The Minister for Education at the opening of a, new school at Addington, replied at considerable length to the recent criticisms of the Education Department regarding the reduction of the re-building vote, "fie said the Government had paid over to the boards 'i very much larger sum than had been expended on the re-building of worn-out schools. He .\vns "lire that the boards were saving up the money to provide for a larger amount of re-building i.-i the future. It would be some encouragement to secure as early as possible the reinstatement of the vote but as yet he had not found the boards doin? so. Taking altogether the maintenance and re-building monies paid to boards since the system was adopted and the amounts expended, the ledgers of the boards showed that in 1007 there outfit to have been to the credit ;Cfi!),3.S."). and in 1908 £101,341. Taking a.'l boards it was shown that for four years. IDO4-S, the amount spent was £5032. As to the withdrawal of the f)d capitation, the Government considered, that as the general accounts of all the boards showed a balance to credit at the end of 1003 of £20,000 the boards j were receiving sufficient to meet the j demands of school committees. R.«- j warding the educational conference, he j said it was called to deal with the technical reaching side of education, but j from statements mad" regarding: the grants he was heginnin»- to think It J would he necessary to call a conference I •of hoards to deal with' the question < f j administration.