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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4775, 17 July 1894, Page 2

At tho last meeting of the Mas" | terton Town Lands Trust, a member I objected to a proposed grant to the Masterton School Committee, on tho ground that tins body showed in ita balance sheet at the'end of the yep asmall'creditbalance. Frp'm.this.it may" hp "■„ inferred. .that, a local bpdy whichcomes out with a deficit iiusa beitev chance of B6si6taiiijß from tlie

Trust^ito-one:;whipli;cbnduq™B (iff airs iwitb; prudence.l;We iiijjr : Bi find the Trustori these lines offwig ttt^minm^JtoJnanraafmeMfciThejTown iMds TrusiShas f f iin its jurisdictiont.'fonr;scKbols.iJicli claim; .subsidies frohi it, and rsjeivp appear to exist differences of Xpmion as to the respective amounts allocated to these schools, an'dunlfissthe Trustees adopt some busiuess>Method of determining them there ■"will always be unseemly quibbles raised, and, foolish objections started like the one to which we have■• specially referred. The whole question might be very easily. ..determined, on m equitable principle instead of by the present" rule'.of thuiib" or perhaps "rule of cheek?' "Tn6'"'Town Lands Trust should give!" capitation to each school within 'its district based on the 'numbers on the respective school rolls, This-.v'pald at.onco put an end to all 'iWeemly wrangling, 1 pleading, petitioning! and backstairs ■ influence. If for every well-defined reason ono school'had fi -claim to a : higher capitation than another, then '. let that school receive it on an admit- : tedlypublicground.ltisquiteeyident that a capitatioiuof half-a-crown or five shillings per head on each school roll, would be a more equitable method of administering the Trust grant than the present one, and we wonder that the Trustees do not resort to it and so savo themselves endless worry and bother, besides earning'a reputation for administrative capacity, . ■