THE MINISTER for EDUCATION AND MR. A. W. HOGG

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5110, 23 August 1895, Page 2

THE MINISTER for EDUCATION AND MR. A. W. HOGG

By Telegraph-Own Correspondent, Welhsgtos, Friday, Some discussion took place yoster. afternoon, when the Minister for Education presented his annual report, In presenting it, ho claimed the right to make a few remarks on tho careful and eflioient adininistya. tion of tbo Department. Mr Pirapi followed with a yigor» oub denunciation of tho way in wlijfh the building grant was distribjflk tho bulk of the money going ' South, whore the schools were not wanted, and the crumbs falling to the North Island, whero the children were multiplying and new schools were badly needed.

Mr Hogg took tho opportunity of calling attention to the palatial edifico in Wellington, in which the Mucation Board had its offices, and which was used as a technical school, equipped with a select staff of highly accomplished art masters, who in return for their fat salari?& taught the higher branches of draw? ing, painting, wood-carving, statuary and other accomplishments, Mv Hogg said he did not undervalue art, nov did ho contend that suph studies should receive no Eupppvt froni the State, but he objected to tho money voted for primary cduca? tion, being grossly misappropriated, and the country teachers and their children being sweated for the benefit of families of the nppeAten in cities like Wellington. The remarks vera greeted witli loud exclamations of approval all over tho Housq.