RETRENCHMENT AD ABSURDUM.
For many years a vote of 9d per capita of the children attending primary schools was allowed for distribution among the school committees to assist in carrying on their duties. This vote was cut out during last sesison, but the vote of £3,000 to provide free school books to children in the lower standards were allowed to remain. The only thing which can be urged in favour of the latter, remarks the "Mataura Ensign," is that it had only been passed during the previous Parliament, and consequently sufficient time had not elapsed to ascertain whether it ws necessary or not. The cost of these primary books to parents was not'great, and would hardly exceed the amount they will now be asked to subscribe in order to main tain the school committee finances at the level of which they stood during the time the committees received the 9d vote spoken of.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9696, 21 January 1910, Page 4
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153RETRENCHMENT AD ABSURDUM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9696, 21 January 1910, Page 4
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