EDUCATION BILL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1747, 12 May 1906, Page 2

EDUCATION BILL.

A TWO TO ONE MAJORITY.

O. INION OF TIMES.

By teJegrauh. Press Asa'n, Copyright R cetvid 10.29 p.m., May 11.

London. Mav 11. In the House of Commons the E iuoa* tion-Bill was read a second time by 410 to 204. T e opposition included four Laborite- and seventy-eight Nationalists, and H. Sloan, Independent Conservative, voted with tho Government Fourteen Irish Unionists abstained from votiog.

Mr A-quith ropeated that the Govern* ment were willing to listen to reasonable ' amendments in Committee on matters of det»il.

The Times says that the Bill inflicts ft i)|t _ graver religious disability than any it tends to remove. Government do show the least sign of realising this, but the principle of complete popular oontrol. In a parlous case the principle of no tests is now interpreted as allowing authorities to satisfy themselves that the teachers an* dertaking religious teaching are qualified to give it. The Government will also finally find it impossible to disqualify teachers giving the religious teaching which tbey desire to give, and generally to limit all other facilities in favor of a single type.