EDUCATIONAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2488, 5 July 1909, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL.

+ Mr Parker M’Kinlay, a well-known resident of Benhar, is out to contest the representation of the Southern ward on the Otago Education Board.—says the Clutha ‘Free Press.’ Mr M’Kinlay is a man of parts who has taken a deep interest in educational matters, and has had the additional advantage of studying the subject at first hand, having been a school teacher himself for many years. He graduated from the Otago University, obtaining an M.A. degree with full honours in Physical Science. He held a teacher’s A2 certificate when he left the Otago Education Board’s service, and if he had remained teaching a little longer he would have been entitled to an Al, the highest in the service. For the past live years Mr M’Kinlay, has been engaged in business with Messrs M’Skimraing and Sou, of Benhar, and he has held office as secretary of the Stirling school committee during nearly the whole of that time. Thus he has acquired an intimate knowledge of the actual requirements of the country school districts, and might easily develop in'o a valiant champion of country schools. The time is, we consider, ripe for the appointment to the Board of men with actual knowledge of what takes place in our schools, as we have reason to believe there are certain abuses in our primary schools which are becoming absolutely rampant.