BUILDING OF SCHOOLS
PROGRAMME MAY BE CURTAILED WARNING BY MINISTER. (By Telesrraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, April 5. “We can go only as fast as the economic condition of the country will allow,” said the Minister of Education, Mr P. Fraser, when informing the Hawke’s Bay Education Board at a meeting today that there was a possibility that the schools., building programme might have to be slightly curtailed in future. “At present there is a building programme involving millions to be faced and this in spite of what has already been done,” he said. Millions, you know, cannot be conjured out of thin air.”. Patience was absolutely imperative, said the Minister, when appealing to educational authorities . not to exaggerate the urgency , of problems. The Minister again spent a busy day visiting schools in Napier and Hastings and meeting deputations from school committees. He is expected to leave Hawke’S Bay tomorrow.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1939, Page 6
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148BUILDING OF SCHOOLS Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1939, Page 6
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