IRISH SCHOOLS

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 153, 16 March 1923, Page 7

IRISH SCHOOLS

NORTHERN EDUCATION SYSTEM TO BE REVOLUTIONISED SPECIAL RATE MAY BE STRUCK BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT. London, March 14. A Bill has been introduced in the Northern Parliament revolutionising the education system in vogue for the past seventy years. The National Board is abolished and the Bill makes the county councils and county boroughs the education authority, which mav strike an education rate, a thing hitherto unknown in Ireland. The Government will pay the teachers’ salaries and the schools will be maintained by the _ rates. Provision is made for denominational instruction after school hours. Provision is also made for the medical treatment of children and the feeding of necessitous ones.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE ROUND-UP IN ENGLAND INTERNMENT ONLY PROPOSED. (Rec. March 15, 7.20 pm.) London, March 14. Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, replying to a question in the House of Commons, saiid nothing more than internment was proposed at present m connection with those arrested in the Irish roundup in England.— An advisory committee would be constituted at an early date.-—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. EXECUTIONS IN THE SOUTH FOUR PRISONERS SHOT London, Mafl#h 14. Four prisoners were executed at Drumdoe Castle. It is stated that while facing the firing squad they shouted “Up with the Republic.”— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. REBELS PROCLAIM TIME OF MOURNING \ IN VIEW OF EXECUTIONS (Rec. March 15, 8.20 p.m.) London, March 15. The rebels have issued a proclamation that in view of the murders of prisoners of war and executions the present will be observed as a time of mourning,. and all sports and amusements suspended, and places of amusement and resort- closed. If the rebels are able to enforce this, the McTigueSiki fight will be affected.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.