NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 201, 19 May 1908, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

[SI; lELESBAPH.—rRESS ■ ASSOCIATION.]

BOARDS AND SCHOOL COMMITTEES PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF THE ACT. _■/_ ~ Nelson, • May 18. . At . a meeting of the Town Schools Commute? /this evening the Rev. Mr. -Mackenzro (chairman)"., gayo notice. to move" as > follows: —" Whereas under tho Education. Act ths election,of members.of Boards is in tho hand# of. tho country, comnpttces - in altogether unduo preponderance, and whereas by a recent • decision of.tho Appeal Court the Boards hav« not only a general supervision but particular' control over school management, and tho' "ommittces • are . made, no more . than carethis committM .horeby, resolves: (1). That in the best interests "of education, it is expedient: that ; Uip -management of the rosp.ectivo educational affairs: of the town' and ■ tho country .districts should be separated' in a manner corresponding to tliat in which general affairs are- managed by town oouncila and countv,councils, and-that the town committees should bo; given- the."powers now : vestedin. the : Boards. v .(2)J ,That : tho localparliamentary -. candidates. hft ( ■ ' i _■ (3) /That other'town, counties of .the .. Dominion be • circularised on-the ' matter,- and their assistance • asked'm con-" ncction with t their candidates-":•• .' . '■■< , ' - CHURCH PARADE. , ■ Napier, May 18. /,. Tho Napier oorps of tho Third (East Coast) ; battalion.' have' decided, to;\hold 'a church" parade oil'. Sunday - afternoon next) Empire Day, and thereafter annually, when-the tones at tho-services , will be devoted to ,the maintenance of a' bed in the Napier' Hospital to be known .as tho Battalion bed..' ■; ' .'. HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION. '.-••• Nelson, Mayllßi v . m -. ? g of,, thp Retailers'" ABsrciatioii,. repudiated, the tint ' the Association , had : written, to.-Wellington asking support in defying the law regarding • tho Saturday .closing. It was stated, that - whatever .action' bad been • taken was the act of individuals, /and.- had- art ; '"the?anc(aottvaf tho* Association. ■ , "v! ■ ~ 'V- . •no power to transfer:, •t' ; ' 'i v Christchurch, May 18.': '-.•ft -the Magistrate's - Court this morninir., Sub-Inspccfcor ■ on' b^alf. ; /of<■ an /inmate of tho Asylum Home under the Habi- ' tual Drunkards .Act",' "1906,1 applifed''tb>havei lnm.;.transferred' to the;Pakato'a ' Home : "iii Auckland. . Mr.-H. ;„W.,. Bishop,.-SiM.; /lk" plied .that .ho had no .power, to transfer:iiijnabes, from.-one ',institution - to' 'anotbfer.' "I '• iilt^id',tq' ; suggest to ,give *l}ho governor power to 'fcracatar," ho. concluded.,- \ :