NELSON COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1931, Page 9

NELSON COLLEGE

COUNCIL AND MINISTER

FULL CONFIDENCE WANTED

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NELSON, 2nd July. The Nelson College Governors, on the voices, with some dissentients, including the chairman, carried the following motion to-day:—"That tho Minister of Education be requested to submit to the council governors for consideration and comment any new regulations. drawn in. pursuance,of Section 3S of the Finance Act No. 2, 1931, or any other Act, for the control of Nelson College before such regulations, are -finally settled and gazetted." _ During the discussion it was pointed out that the .Minister.had asked two members of tho board- to Visit Wellington to confer with, him in connection with the new regulations, but the feeling of the supporters of the motion wasthat the~ board as a whole should be consulted.. . •....•■ . The motion was moved m accordance with notice given by Dr.- Gibbs, who complained that the present Ministerof Education had returned to the. policy; of Government by regulation that arose: from war-time emergency, but which SirJames Parr, when Minister of Education, had dropped again m deference to public opinion, and a deputation which, had waited upon him. Dr. Gibbs condemned the attitude of the present Minister as autocratic, and maintained the council as.a whole was entitled to full confidence;- there should.' be no secrecy. ■ ■ -