NOVEL DEPUTATION
OFFER TO MINISTER
EXAMINATION SYSTEM
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, July 13. Claiming that they formed a deputation of a novel kind in that they were asking nothing but his blessing and were even offering him something if he wished to take it, representatives of the Association of Commercia.' Science waited on the Minister of Education (the Hon. P. Fraser) this afternoon.
The president, Mr. G. J. Errington, outlined the objects! of the association in conducting examinations and stated that the association was prepared to hand over its examination system if the Government desired to accept it. All the association asked was that if the Government did not want to accept responsibility for examinations il should discourage tha formation .of bodies which might have similar objects.
The Minister, after expressing doubt whether more examinations were desirable in the education system of the Dominion, undertook to study more closely the aci?*Sies of the association.
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Evening Post, Issue 12, 14 July 1936, Page 10
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