EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5804, 8 May 1912, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.

HON. ,1. A ItA.NA.V-S OI'INLOX

(Per Press Association.)

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Lion. .1. A. II amm passed through lwre this morning. Speaking of his w-brk 'since he took odice he said there were many directions in which inquiries would have to be prosccut-o-d in the public interest. The main question was whether the State wa:i getting value for the money spent en education, lie would like to know if a higher standard of eiVsciency. could be secured by 'hotter co-or-dination' and administration. "Tlve powers of Education lVoa'rds ntv;l other local bodies, and their (i<nam'« ami possible overlapping might profitably be inquired into as well .as an improvement, in the syllabus and the extension of agricultural instruction. Mr Ha nan mentioned also then' .•secondary schools, the promotion of. Leaching methods of standards and teachers, centralisation of rural schools, and the scholarship system ;as proper questions for further inquiry. ■ (MIRIstCHCRCH,' May H. \ Speaking- to an interviewer, Mr Ilanan said there would be a great deal of 'hostility to the closing <:' ■schools if/-effect were given to tho policy of centralisation, it was possible, even probable, that many children would be deprived of tho' 'benefits of education1 if centra I if-wit/ion we're adopted, as many of the children would be be.vond the compulsory radius. Therein lay the great dillicuity.