In submitting the estimates of the Education Depariment the Education Board recommended cancellation of the principle previously laid down by the Council and approved by the ratepayers that "expenditure on education be limited to the product of a 2 per cent. General Municipal Rate together with the relative Land 'Tax. The estimates submitted this year by the Education Board do ex-teed the estimated product of such '2.2 per cent. rate. The Finance Committee accepted the recommendation of the Treasurer that they should Fecommend. the Council' not to. ap-Prove cancellation of the principle at the present time, but that the Education estimates as submitted should, in view of present Amended Budget Comparative Sika caste abnormal circumstances, be approved, and that the Education Board should bbe requested to give early consideza~ tion to increasing school fees, and that the Superintendent of Education and the Treasurer should be requested to investigate and report on the question of "effecting economy educational expenditure.
Subject to the qualifications men tioned above, the Finance Committee adopted the' Treasurer's report and recommended for the approval of the Council the Budget of Ordinary Expenditure for 1940, as submitted, its meeting on March 20, the Council' adopted: the revised Bidgot recommended by the Finance Committee.
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