DEPUTATION TO THE AUCKLAND MEMBERS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9836, 20 September 1897, Page 6

DEPUTATION TO THE AUCKLAND MEMBERS.

{PRESS ASSOCIATION TELT3GRAM.) AUCKLAND, September 18. The Auckland members received an influential deputation on behalf of the Auckland Technical School, which is in its third year. They were urged to get the law amended to increase the subsidy, or place the Technical Schools under the Board of Education. The members agreed to act accordingly. A deputation of Waikato farmers urged the importance of the sugar beet industry. The members resolved that the production of sugar from the sugar beet ought to be encouraged by Parliament by the offer of a more substantial bounty than was afforded by the present law. A deputatiou from several Fruit Growers' Associations urged the members to oppose any amendment in the Orchard and Garden Pests Act. It was decided that the Auckland members do all that is possible to protect the industry, and to ascertain the views of the Auckland fruit growers should any amendments be introduced iv the present Act.

In response to a deputation of school teachers, it was resolved that an endeavour be made to induce the Government to amend the Teachers' Court of Appeal Act, -which, owing to the provisions of the previous Act over-riding those of the measure lately passed, still allows teachers to be dismissed with three months' notice without appeal; to provide a uniform scale of salary for teachers throughout the colony, and a uniform system of teaching and paying pupil teachers.