EDUCATION PORTFOLIO
MR. APPLETON'S OPINION
"Should the Minister of Education be a member of the TJppor House?" This question .-was . put to . Mr. Will lAppleton, the Coalition candidate, for Wellington South, at/Newtown last evening. In replying, Mr. Appleton stated tnat 'in'his .opinion Education, should not be a.'political, question... It ehoitld be free from being-a political football to bo rolled and kicked about by:the various members of Parliament.
• '.'I do not think it is generally recognised,'?, said .Mr. Appleton,. '' that apart from' the'-fact that in the late Mr.; .Seddon's. time,., tho'Hon. W. C. .Waiker.,wa3 Minister of Education, it Vaa hot.'.unusual .for. a Mjjiister of; the "Upper House.to hold important Cabinet rank.'.' In 'Mr. Massey 's first Ministry, for instance, Six .JTrancis. Bell held -the portfolios of Internal Affairs; Immigration, Audit, Begistrar-tiencral, High Commissioner, , .Miisoum,.. . ...Friendly' Societies, arid .Laboratory Departments. In .'.the 1919. .Ministry, -in addition to being Minister .of Education,. , Sir IFrancis Bell was .Attorney-General, fylinister of Public Health, lirimigra- : tion, -■:- .State. --Forests,- - Hospital 'and Charitable Aid, and he was. also Leader of the Legislative Council... '■'" ".. ; .
"In , tlio present -Minister of 'Education," stated .the speaker,'."we have a man 6f unique experience/ For twelve- years ..he ( was member' 0f; \ihe Tar'anakt Education;.' Board,' on'w'hich he\did splendid service; No' man, in my opinion, in-the present Government, has a better •' grip ion the educational requirements' '6f New Zealand. .#rAs far H8 : .I can -discover/; our.;• educational Bystem is not like]/ to suffer as ;',»■ result of Mr. Masters' /Handling of the Situation. No curtailment of essential •Educational facilities has taken place,
"nbr"ia it' contemplated. Economies have been effected;-and will be effected, but theso will be mostly of an administrative naturc.y/ln the Education Department, and/rfor that'matter hi most Departments of State, as well as in private affairs, existing financial conditions have: to. be-taken into consideration, but the removal of the portfolio of Education from tho hurly-burly of everyday polities is something thai is to be desired. - ' '
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 121, 18 November 1931, Page 11
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