COUNCIL OF EDUCATION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2502, 1 July 1915, Page 3

COUNCIL OF EDUCATION

FIRST MEETING. The Minister of Education (the Hon. Jas. Allen) was present at the first meeting of the newly-created Council of Education yesterday. The members of the council present were: Dr. W. J. Anderson (chairman), Messrs 'IV 11. ! Fleming (Wellington}, J. li. Kirk (Gisborne), J. G. W. Aitken (Wellington), C. H. Opie (Ch ri stall urcli), W. N. l'rauklyn (Nelson;, T. U. Wells (Auckland), J. Caugliley (Christchurch), F. H. Campbell (Dunedin), G. Hogben (Wellington), E. C. Banks (Auckland), Mrs. B. E. Talbot (Auckland), and Misses C. M. Cruickshank (Wauganui), and E. A. Chaplin (Christchurch), and Mr. A. Bell, who was appointed secretary of the council. The Hon. Jas. Allen, in addressing the council, stated that its recommendations with regard to expenditure would finally bo decided by Parliament. He sincerely trusted that the council would assist in the educational policy so that the country could follow along lines that would develop ill the future the citizen that was required. That citizen, to his mind, was ohe who started his training at the earliest stages, and who would continually develop until the citizen was produced who would be sufficient for all tie purposes of the naticn until it was one to guide the destiny of all the nations of the earth. The council had been set up with great hopes that the wisdom that would come from it would lead the Government upon right lines in its educational system, and he hoped aud believed that many of tie weaknesses which existed might be removed. In concluding the Minister made eulogistic reference to the work of the late Mr. Royd Garlick, Director of Physical Instruction, and Mr. ■G. Hogben, late Inspector-General of Schools. Tne proceedings were 1 not open to the Press.