EDUCATION MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 128, 31 May 1904, Page 6

EDUCATION MATTERS.

[OT TBMtOBATH— PttE3S ABSOOIATIOIt.I CUfUSTGHURdI, 30Ui May. At a HKeidng of tho Canterbury Collego Board of (Vvemoia, tho Auckland University's r«conrmondation to e*hablit«h a School of Mines n>t Auckland and of Law at Wdfinctou, Eugimtcring ut Chd(«tcharch, iwid Modichio at Duncxlin, was coiujidert'd. It was s*a"ted tliat if Win Board a|ipi*owcd tike proposal ,. it would be lrelpnjg Auckland, to tivto from l)une<liu Aometbing Dunedtn alreaiix pof»us»ed. it was decided thai tho Board wum not iv possession of sufficient inkn-ina-tion to wai-runt it« expret»iug an opinion on the- subject. A loiter from the* Education Department, setting forth th« dMttlritities pluocd -tipon counwy ]Hipjiirt in primary achoois on account of tho limit of ioueteen years imposed by Clause 3 D of the fwe escliolamnip regulations, was referred to a committco to repoet. AUCKLAND, Tl»ie Day. Colonel Pitt, Aottng-Mmiuter for Education, replying lo sfcroug rauaaentations a« tio uccemary expontlrutre by &to Education Department in tho Auckland district, fmd he woutd go cai-«Mly into tlie matter on Ids return to Wellington* and would see that tho Board had at least an official reply to Jto Applications.