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TOPICAL READING.

handicapped for funds,

The financial needs of the Masterton Technical School formed the subject of a deputation from the School Managers to the Masterton County Council, yesterday afternoon. Messrs W. •H. Jackson, C. E. Daniell and the Very Rev. Dean McKenna, composed the deputation, and these gentlemen pointed out how greatly handicapped the school was for funds, in view of its latest efforts to provide special classes at great cost for such valuable work as wool-classing. Mr Jackson stated that sixty pupils attended this class, which was one directly appealing to the ratepayers in the Council's jurisdiction, On the motion of Cr Toogood it was decided to place the sum of £25 on the estimates for next year for Technical School grant, the money to be earmarked for classes specially benefitting the a*id pastoral industry. PROPOSED NEW TAXATION. The Minister of Education, evidently worried by in3vitable financial problems, perceives a loophole of escape in the levying of local taxes for school building purposes. We have been taxed to build schools from Westport to Chri«tchurch. from Blenheim to Invereargill. We have been taxed to give railways that canjnever pay to Southern districts that could never have paid for them. We are taxed still to an extent unknown in any of the countries whose methods are now admired by Mr Fowlds. It is too much, says the Auckland "Herald," to ask that our schools also shall be built at the public charge, not because we have any idea thrt Government money falls like manm from heaven, but because we know that while local taxes would fall only upon Auckland, the general character of public taxes is that they 'fall, like the dew, upon the settled as well as upon the unsetled districts, upon the South as upon the North. TRADES COUNCILS AND UNIONS. Although no secessions from the Christchurch Trades and Labour Council were announced at the meeting on Saturday evening, disaffection amongst the unions seems to be spreading rapidly. Several unions meet this week to consider the question of their allegiance, and two more.unions—the Metalworkers and Ironmoulders—have definitely decided to withdraw. Several other eeressions are also expected. No steps have yet been taken by the disaffected unions to combine. A proposal to establish another body in opposition to the Trades Council has been discussed amongst individual members of the union, and a scheme in this direction may be prepared in a few days. The result ot the annual meeting of the Trades Council on Saturday evening ha* not had the effect of narrowing the breach. Most of the officers elected belong t.-) the "Red Flag" sections, as the Socialists are called. It is stated that several of the steadier members of the council declined to be nominated, as they did not wish to be associated with the advanced section. The meeting was characteristic of most of the meetings of the council lately, the old members being conspicuous by their absence, and leaving the field in possession of those wno have introduced general politics; and who are accused of using the council as a means of advancing their own political views and aspiration?.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9542, 14 July 1909, Page 4

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523

TOPICAL READING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9542, 14 July 1909, Page 4

TOPICAL READING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9542, 14 July 1909, Page 4

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