THE EDUCATION BILL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 143, 23 July 1914, Page 3

THE EDUCATION BILL.

GLARING ANOMALIES.

PROTESTS FROM TEACHERS.

TARANAKI'S ATTITUDE. , Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, July 22. At a meeting of -the Taranaki Education Board/ to-day, the proposal in the Education Bill to eliminate the Taranaki education district and centre this control in Wanganui was discussed, and a resolution was passed emphatically protesting against the proposal, and urging that il would be against the best interests of education as a whole, and Taranaki in particular, and stating that the Board was of opinion that for;efficient management such an important district as Taranaki, con-, taining large areas of close settlement and still larger areas whero settlement was Widely Scattered, it was essential that there should be a Board, the members of which would be in toueh and have knowledge of all parts of the district. The Board further urged that the interests of education would be better -served by the retention of the Taranaki Board the inclusion in its jurisdiction of the whole Taranaki province and the southern portion of the present Auckland district extending along the coast as far as Raglan and inland to Te Kiiiti. It was decided to request the Education Committee to hear evidence from the Board on the subject. 0 School committees are arranging to 'hold meetings in protest, and public meetings on the subject have been called in various parts of the district.

VIEWS FROM DUNEDIN. i

DUNEDIN, July 22,

A special meeting of the Dunedin ; Male Assistants' Association was held lon Tuesday to consider the scheme of salaries in the new Education Bill. It was unanimously resolved —"That this meeting of the Dunedin Male ■ Assistants' Association thanks Mr Allen for the proposed Education Bill, and while admitting it is an improvement on the present Act, it wishes respectfully to draw-his attention to the fact that glaring anomalies exist, and must exist, in the proposed salaries scheme so long as average attendance forms the basis for payment, and hence this Association re-affirms the principle that any satisfactory scheme -must be based on efficiency and service." A special committee was appointed to consider the various anomalies contained in the proposed Bill, and to report to a meeting to be held on Friday. At a representative meeting of women teachers it was resolved that a resolution should be forwarded to the Minister of Education, approving of his actiou in making provision in the Bill for the appointment of women inspectors und of four women to the j Advisory Council of Education, and thanking him for the interest thus j shown in the educational welfare of girls.