THE EDUCATION CONFERENCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 May 1912, Page 3

THE EDUCATION CONFERENCE

RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED. [BT TEJ.ppB.APB—PEK PBES3 ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, May 26. The Education Delegate’s Conference adopted the following resolutions: j That the increase in the number of ! bodies charged with the administration of education will lead to an increased ■cost, without securing greater efliciency. That the proposal to past part of the cost of primary education noon local rates, is destructive of the national character of our educational systepi, i and entails new burdens upon the tax-1 payers without providing any compensatory advantage, while exposing I schools to the danger of being starved. I 'The chairman ruled out 6f order a J motion by Air. bred Pirani:—"That the Education 'Boards be asked .to .consider a proposal that an amendment in tiie system in educational administration ho, in the direction of the establishment of a Central Council of Education, with the Minister of Education as President, to whom shall be entrusted the functions at present carried out by the Education Department. This concluded the business of the Conference. ATTITUDE OF THE MINISTER. WELLINGTON, This Day. Delegates, representing the Conference of Education Boards, waited on tiie Minister of Education to-day and placed before hi mtho resolutions passed by the Conference. 1 The Hon. Mr. Hanan said that, a 1 statement would be made by the. Minj ister in charge of the Local Government Bill, to the effect that inquiry was about to be set up dealing with the cost of education, both primary, manual and technical. He hoped that the great question of national education would always be put above party or faction.