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class; this has been found unsatisfactory.
Should the
financial position be improved twelve months hence, the question of a further increase in the grants will be considered. It is proposed to discontinue next year the payment of grants for children in grant in aid schools who take the local University Examinations. This is not a casc of robbing Peter to pay Paul, for hereas the increase in capitation grants is $45,000 the reduction in University grants is $10,000 only. This policy of increasing the assistance given to non-Goverment schools is also extended to the elementary vernacular schools, the
subsidies for which are increased from 380,000 to $100,000.
This is in accordance with
The next matter to which I wish to draw attention in
dealing with the Education Department is the provision that is made for the Junior Technical School on page 72, $5,000 for furniture and equipment, on page 73 headmaster, carpentry instructor, and to cher of building construction, and on page 74 two University Train: d Teachers.
the recommendation of the Committee on technical Education, whose
report will shortly be published. It will not be possible to
open the school until the latter half of next year, staff
selerics are therefore provided for six months only. The school
as Hon. Members are probably aware, is to be housed in the building at present occupied by Victoria British School. It is not anticipated that the school will pay for itself by fccs received as it is intended for the sons of comparatively poor parents, boys who will be apprenticed to engineering firms or otherwise earning their living in the day, and le rning the theoretical side of their work in the evening.
There
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