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"THURSDAY. MAY ll, ACT UAL SUM EARNED FIXES SIZE OF GRANT ', , TD SEPARA TE SCHOOLS , l: -"------- , o Hon. Mr. Grants l" Pro-l ' poses New Met od of! Distributing U steamed / School Grant o DW, ference Betwee, I Thosei Paid to Public and Sep- i arate Boards I i OF 'jjj-iii-Iii-jjj, PLAN I') ' o l -"'------ l Under the authority being soughti by Hon. R. H. Gran ' Minister of: Education, in the bil submitted to} the Legislature to amtpxld the school; laws, the Minister w 1 be able toi divide the controv rsial unearned] portion of the schoo grants on an! entirely different b sis from that which has caused tr much criticism in the past. / T If the bill is 5eeerWd by the Legis-f (latter-e, according t ' explanation of: the bill received esterday, there) will be in the fut ire no difference), between the gran i paid to public' and separate schodls. The bill gives the Minister tho siower to distribute the unearned gra As as the circum-l stances of the s hools warrant. He: will be able to restrict the grants: to separate schools to the actual' amount earned, , s in the case of the l public schools, {ind the amount orI ia'propriatio/ u learned will be used to assist needy separate schools, not only in the cou nties, but in the dis- tricfs and the Urban centres as well. In the event of; an unearned part of the public schools grant, this, too, would be dealt: with as provided in I the act. J l Under the ystem which has been!, in vogue, any. which has been the) source of so- much complaint, the: department disposes of the unearned i ,' part of the Provincial appropriation! . by a pro rat); distribution among the schools that; have already benefited. Last year .he public schools ab-l l sorbed all their grant, while the scp-, arate schools earned only about half.' F of theirs, ' but, under the British; _',North A erica Act, the unearned; _ ipart (c'/7iT'/iti up. The result Lil ' the system, say its critics, is to give _ some sep'irate schools an unwar- rantedly arse share at the expense of other Separate schools which have not carried a grant. ------------.- i G.W.V.A. Club House Mea) i sure Stands Over {i Until Later , ------------_ REE; w.---------.--- {I . G. G. Halcrow. Pder'endtnt.me.tT,i' her for. East Hamilton. early 1n the session introduced into the Legis- T lature a, bill to permit trustees of the G.W.\'.A. clubhouse in Hamilton . to sell the building and apply the L proceeds on the purchase ff a new ' clubhouse for the association. The bill went to the Private Bills Com- . mittee, then to a small sue-Commit- V tee and emerged as an I? permitt- , . s to sell t e proper y ting the tirrlgstgfher property for the W land acqu idin in Hamilton. 'War veterans reel 8 bill that he f h iAs that was not the lil -,'v:'u'V& .