FREE COLLEGE EDUCATION.
DEPUTATION TO HON. G. FOWLDS
[Per Press Association.,! WELLINGTON, August 10. The chairmen of twenty school committees around Wellington waited on tho Hon. G. Fowlds, Minister ot Education, to-day to protest against the Wellington College Governors’ neglect to provide free places for girls holdnig proficiency certificates. Tho Minister threw upon the College Governors all responsibility, and intimated that legislation might be necessary to overcome this obstinacy. A valuable public endowment must not be used practically as a preserve of the children of well-to-do people. If lack of accommodation was the trouble, iie was willing to find the money to extend, it, but the Government would not spend money on buildings where free places were refused. ,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2577, 11 August 1909, Page 5
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118FREE COLLEGE EDUCATION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2577, 11 August 1909, Page 5
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