EDUCATION.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19111, 21 September 1927, Page 13

EDUCATION.

NEW ASSOCIATION FORMED. (PiIESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, September 20. At a public meeting held to-night representative of all branches of education —primary, secondary, school committees, the university, and the Workj ers' Educational Association —it was decided. to inaugurate a Progressive Educational Association, known as the "New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Education.'' It was stated by various speakers that there was a danger through public apathy that the cause of education would bo prejudiced by an unstatesman■ike policy of economy and retrogression as contained in the rumoured abolition of Education Boards. The aims of the new Association, it was stated, were to organise all sections of public opinion with the object of creating a new attitude towards education, an attitude commensurate with the interest of the individual parent in the educational welfare of his own children. The Mayor, Mr Troup, presided, and the speakers included Professor W. H. j Gould, of Victoria College, Mr J. L. Combs (president of the New Zealand Educational Institute), Mr J. H. Howell (principal of the "Wellington Technical College), Mr L. Hennessey (representing the School Committees' Association). and Mr M. J. Ford (of the W.E.A.).