EDUCATION BOARDS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9134, 5 February 1910, Page 2

EDUCATION BOARDS.

(Peh Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Feb. 4. At a of the Southland Education Board Mr J. O. Thomson, M.P., moved that the Board take no action in regard to the resolution of the Otago Board protesting against the consistent ignoring of the Board and the exclusion of members from conferences such as that about to be held in Wellington. The motion also contained an expression of disapproval of the Otago resolution. He mentioned that the Otago Board had frequently raised difficulties in regard to educational matters, and he argued that Boards were not competent to advise on matters on which inspectors were asked to give an opinion. They were of a purely technical nature. He did not know that the Department had ever ignored the Southland Board. Mr "W. McAlister seconded and supported the motion. The conference was evidently one for experts. Mr Gilchrist considered the Otago Board altogether too fault-finding. Mr Fisher characterised the Otago Board as being something in the nature of a Scotch Terrier, always worrying homebody about (something. Mr Crosby Smith jocosely stated that while the Otago Board fiercely opposed centralisation, it appeared to want to have the Education Department made the Otago Education Board. Tho motion was unanimously carried.