UNIFIED CONTROL

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 288, 1 September 1931, Page 10

UNIFIED CONTROL

Progress in Education MINISTER’S VIEWS By Telegraph—Press Association. Nelson, August 31. The Minister of Education, Hon. 11. Atmore, has sent a reply to the Nelson College governors, who; had passed a resolution requesting him to submit to the Council of Governors for consideration any new regulations drawn in pursuance of Section 38 of the Finance. Act No. 2 for the control of Nelson' College before such regulations were gazetted. The Minister said the Orders-in-Council were necessary in coping with the complex functions of the State. Experience showed that the field of education could not be regulated by formal Acts of Parliament and that the machinery of Parliamentary enactment was not suited for detailed administrative purposes. He had frequently invited the co-operation of teachers and governing bodies, and had emphasised his willingness to consider any recommendation. “I shall be pleased to receive any suggestions from boards and committees of the Dominion,” he said, “with a clear understanding that the Government must have the right of final decision, but to submit regulations to the present council, which will be superseded in a few weeks time by a new board representing both technical and academic interests, would l>e inadvisable. Unification of controlling authorities and amalgamation of schools are most progressive steps, and great benefit will accrue to the girls and boys of the district and those who come from other portions of the Dominion as a consequence. I am sure that all portions of the people will combine to help the council make the schools even greater successes in the future than they have been in the past.”