TARANAKI SCHOOL MATTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1920, Page 4

TARANAKI SCHOOL MATTERS.

BOARDING allowance QUESTION, CONCESSIONS MADE. (By Wire.—Parliamentary Reporter.) n n „ Wellington, Last Night. The Hon. C. .T. Parr (Minister of Education) has written to Mr. S. G. Smith, M.1., regarding representations made at inglewood and New Plymouth on the subject of boarding allowances for children. _ He state% that an allowance is paid m cases where it is clearly shown that a mother has taken children to town and is living with, <±em in order that they may attend school. It must be shown that the usual home is in the that the house in town is specially provided for the purpose of enabling the children to attend school. ' It was also requested that, in vi«w of payments to scholarship holders, primary school children should receive more than 5s per week boarding allowance, seeing that echolarship holders at present receive £35 per annum. Under the provisions of the Act, the Minister states, the allowance for board ww recently doubled and made 5s per week plus half any amount contributed in excess of this rate bv the Education Board. It was never intended that the whole cost should be borne by the Oov--1 e "?. men ' ; - Education Boards have certain obligations under section 54 of the Education Act to provide at least part of the cost of conveyance.