COLLEGE PRINCIPAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 June 1928, Page 8

COLLEGE PRINCIPAL

APPOINTMENT REGULATIONS

(Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, June 21.

The Director of Education (Mr. P. B. Strong) to-day issued a statement in reply to the attack made on the Education Department by the members of the Wellington Education Board at yesterday’s meeting over the disfigreement concerning the appointment of a Principal to Wellington Training College. Defending the attitude of his Department, Mr. Strong emphasised that the proposed new regulations covering appointments did not limit the power of the Board any more than did the old regulations, which however failed to prescribe the course of action to be followed when a deadlock was reached. The present regulation was shown to be imperfect inasmuch as it did not prescribe any course of action when the two parties to the appointment disagreed, and neither would give way. The proposed amended regulations were made on the advice of the Solicitor General that the present ones were imperfect for the reason above stated, and in order to give full and definite effect to the intention of the original regulations. namely, that the Minister shall decide who shall be appointed to Training College Staffs. Ever since Training Colleges were established this had been the rule. It must be clearly understood that the new regulation did not take away any power the Board has had, but was intended to prevent an important appointment being held up indefinitely. The Department’s only motive was to secure the strongest possible Principal for the Training College.