DOMINION NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10167, 23 July 1924, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

PUBLIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION.

ANNUAL MEETING. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 22. The annual meeting of the council -of the N.Z. Public Service Association opened in Wellington to-day under the presidency of Mr It . Sinel. The opening ivas formal, Sir Francis Bell, who was to attend, being at Sir Walter Buchanan’s funeral. Twenty-two delegates were present. The annual report showed a membership of 5324, including 25 in Western Samoa. The year had been very satisfactory financially. War bonds to the value of £4OO had been sold and the proceeds re-invested. The reserve fund was £2702 12s lOd. Ordinary cash receipts exceeded payments by £216 8s Bd. Subscriptions outstanding totalled £531 5s 3d. The report stated that 16 benefits had been obtained during the year. These did not include anything relating to the principal activities of the association, viz., claims in connection with regrading due on April 1 last, and also improved salary conditions. The former still was under consideration by the Public Service Commissioner, and it seemed lie was embarrassed by reason of the position created through the action of other organisations. The association would like to see a common basis of claim brought before Parliament this session by tl le three organisations that lia»e most in common, the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association, the Railway Officers’ Institute and the Public Service Association. In moving the adoption of the report, Mr Sinel said the year had been a strenuous one. Mr Sinel was re-elected president, and Messrs Mackintosh and J. Jackson, both of Wellington, were re-elect-ed vice-presidents.

SEPARATE UNIVERSITIES.

AUCKLAND, July 22. The Court of Convocation of Auckland University College to-day passed a resolution approving of separate Universities, provided measures were adopted to assure that the status of degree would not suffer, also advocating tho appointment of a commission to investigate means of introducing the scheme. It further resolved urging that independence should be secured for Auckland University College in the event of other centres objecting to the scheme.

GOOD CITIZENSHIP. AIM OF EDUCATION. AUCKLAND, July 22. Professor John Adams, Emeritus professor of Education, London University, gave an address to teachers to-day on post-primary education, illustrating differences between the education system in- Britain and America, and aloo in France and Germany. The professor stated that at Home distinction between elementary and secondary schools was along the- lines of social cleavage. The worst evils of the eld system had -entirely gone, giving way to a broader conception of the education needs of the nation and a wider practice in promising conditions of practical as well as cultural education. Traces of the old system still lingered, but the gulf between the elementary and secondary schools had been bridged. Huxley once wrote strongly of the educational ladder leading. from the gutter to the university, but that had since been countered by Professor Lawrie, of Edinburgh, who bad lectured on how to obtain for the children of the well-to-do some of the advantages of the gutter-snipes. The gui lev-snip© liad nimbleness and a {Certain knowledge, mostly confined to .coin of the realm, but it had its limi-

stations. From what he had already see ll in Auckland, the school children were .gaining all the advantages of the gutter without any of the disadvantages. Professor Adams spoke of the necessity for wise supervision and guidance of ‘boys and girls between the ages of 14 and 18, which was the most crucial stage of their lives. <( I think, he said “we should make more allowance than we do for dull boys and dull girls. It would be better to give them the kind of work they can do instead, of continually boring them with our literary and artistic ideas, with which they have no concern. We are doing them barm instead of good.*; Under proper supervision and a special coui se of instruction. these children should be raised to a. high standard of citizenship. What was wanted was good citizenship without talking too much .about it, as in America. It was a pleasure to see that New Zealand was training its citizens, in the reticent way admirably.

SPEED RESTRICTIONS, TEMUKA BY-LAWS INVALID. TIMARU, July 22. At the Magistrate’s Court at Temuka to-day, Mr Mosley S.M., ruled as unreasonable, and therefore invalid, two sections of Temuka borough by-laws with reference to the speed at which ears may travel in the borough. One limited speed across street intersections to six miles an hour, and the other restricted the pace on certain streets to 10 miie.s an hour.