APPEAL COURT.

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APPEAL COURT.

POWERS OF SCHOOL COMMITTEES

TPaESS ASSOCIATION.] I WELLINGTON, April 13. I In the Court of Appeal, in the case, of Bruce and others v. Wanganui Education Board, Mr Skerrett, for the respondents, contended that the argument for appellants, carried to its logical conclusion, would reduce the position of Education Boards- to an extent never contemplated by the Act? The whole scheme of the Act was that the Board should be the dominant power, and where powers were given to a committee they were either minor powers or special powers, to be exercised subject to the sanction of the Board. As -to section 12, the words "as herein provided" referred only to the powers of inspectors, not to the powers of the Board. If the committee had power •to fix school hours without control by. the Board there would he 1 a want of uniformity in. school hours, in various school districts, under control of the Board. .Section i 37 of the Act showed that the Board was intended to have control of school hour's.