BILL REJECTION RESENTED

Hawera Star, Volume L, 4 March 1931, Page 5

BILL REJECTION RESENTED

EDUCATION LEADER RESIGNS. ENGLISH BOARD PRESIDENT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 2. Sir C. P. Trevelyan, President of the Board of Education, has resigned, and Dr. H. T. Lees-Smith, Post-master-General, has been appointed to succeed him. Major Attlee, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, has been appointed Postmaster-General. . Sir O. P. Trevelyan was author of the Education Bill raising the school age, which was defeated in the Lords.

“DISASTROUS CONDITIONS.” fUnited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, March 3. Sir C. P. Trevelyan’s resignation is the direct outcome of the House of Lords’ rejection of the Education Bill, but he indicates dissatisfaction in other directions in his letter to Mr MacDonald, in which he states that he has realised for some time that he is greatly out of sympathy with the general policy. .He declares that the present disastrous condition of trade requires' big Socialist measures rather, than painful, ineffective economies. “As time proceeds the situation gets worse,” he adds. “We show less intention to rely on Socialism as the salvation of the country.” Both sides of the House regard the resignation as evidence of dissatisfaction with the Government, which is not confined to the hack benchers. Sir O. P. Trevelyan caused minor sensations last year by attacking Harrow. bis old school, declaring it was a school merely for the rich where boys believed in brawn and not brains.

[Sir Charles Trevelyan comes of a staunch Liberal family, and is 6Q years of age. He entered Parliament in 1899, and in 1908 he became Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education. In 1918 he joined the Independent Labour Party. After four years out of the House of Commons he returned in 1922 : in 1924 he became the first Labour T > >*psident of the Board of Education, and with the second Labour Administration he again took uip the post. He succeeded liis father in the baronetcy in 1928. In 1896 bo visited New Zealand in the course of a world tour.]