(BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 97, 26 April 1893, Page 2

(BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Dunedin, thia day. Tho School Committeo elections excited a good cloal of interest all ovor the disbricb. The presenb mode of nomination is condemned as clumsy and leading to surprises, some of which wore strikingly manifest in ono of the city schools, when the chairman, who has been identified with the causo of education for over quarter of a century, found himself at the bottom of tho poll. In another instance, the clerk, who is admitted by all to be tho mosb hardworking member of the Committee, and who has done a groat deal for his particular school, was rejected in favour of an unknown man. In another case, tlie majority of bho retiring Committeo was rejected in favour of men of a more pronounced ticket. Wellington, this day. With reference to a telogram from Dunedin complaining of the present mode of nominating school committees, tho Minister of Education states that bhe amendmenb allowing nominations to bo pub in ab bhe meeting of householders was expressly inserted by bhe Houso of Representatives on accounb of bhe strong feeling that ib is nob until tho assembled householders hear tho annual report of'the Committoe read, and listen to tho discussion upon it, that they are in a position to say whom they will nomiuate and elect. As to a complaint thab tho system leads to surprises, Mr Beeves fools strongly that ie ia nob desirable thab school commibbees should conclude bhab they will meet with no opposition at a meeting of householders unless a systematic canvas againsb them has begun beforo tho meoting is held. Tho Education Department have no reason to believe that tho Act. is in any way causing general friction or dissatisfaction.