EDUCATIONAL APATHY

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 45, 21 August 1925, Page 3

EDUCATIONAL APATHY

NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION MEE.TS

YEAR'S OPER. ATION^ A DIB. APPOD JTTMENT.

The annual meet ing ©.f itfhe (Educational Association of New Zealand Vas held last evening. Th. » president' '{tir. T. R. Cresswell) occupi< id thecllair/'and there were also presen' L- Miss -Batham (Wellington), Miss M . CJ.-Eddied (Pahiatua), Messrs. F. Mihi( a- i(Oaß%u), W A. 4.r----iiold, and M. H. Mxfa (Napier), N. H. S. Law. (Auckla r»% -$•. H . Howell and G. R. Kidson ; Wellington), P. L. Combs, and H.,; 'A. p arkinson (Mere . tary). • v The report of tV a standing Committee referred to tt ie difficulty in securva T / Cn- U BP°ke ot the Education Amr ndment Bill as a reac- ♦ w*?., m^!? re- EeS«t was expressed that the W. iymiky Teachers' Association had tr _ ile(1 to j oin t he association. The activ/ ty of the Hawkes Bay branch w" Colt> mended. *tr president, in moving the adoption of *y f , report and balance-sheet, said the resu .t of the year's operations had been fi/jreat disappointment to him. He felt * iat the association was not going to function without the support of the university professors, and it (fid not appear that they had much hope of them coming in. It seemed to him that every way in which they turned they were ap against a brick wall. Mr. F. L. Combs eaid it would be better to hold on than to disband, and have to re-form later on. They were faced with two kinds of apathy—the apathy of the public and the apathy of their own associations in relation to the association. He asked if it would not be possible while all the educational conferences were in session to hold some kind of a joint conference in order to bring the full weight of educational bodies to bear upon the more important subjects they wished to bring before the public. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. A letter received from the Hawkes Bay branch requesting that steps should be taken to extend university lectures to country district was held over pending the report of the Commission. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. The election of officers resulted as follows:—President, Mr. N. S. H. Law (Auckland); vice-presidents, Messrs. T. R. Cresswell (Wellington) and. G. J. Park (Auckland); secretary, Mr. H. A. Parkinson • (re-elected).