"Dominant Influence”

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 276, 22 November 1935, Page 7

"Dominant Influence”

CABINET’S ATTITUDE ON TRAINING COLLEGE Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Last Night. "There is a dominant influence in Cabinet which should not exist and it is time it. was removed," declared Mr. Wallace, chairman of tho Education Board, in a trenchant attack on Cabinet ’s decision not to reopen the Dunedin and Wellington Training Colleges. 'Mr. AVallace, who specifically .excluded the present Minister of Education from his strictures, stated he was convinced that Cabinet knew nothing of Otago’s case, and averred that the Prime Minister had not taken their claims seriously.^ Quoting ligures to show that the decision had been a delinite' factor in turning the minds of young people away from the teaching profession, to the detriment of education, Mr. Wallace said Otago had found difficulty in finding its quota. Previously they had been able to make a selection of the best students offering, but now they would be compelled to take every student, which was a bad outlook for school stalling. As evidence of its earnestness to secure the reopening of tue Dunedin College, the Otago Education Board had offered to contribute towards the cost from its genera! fund. A resolution in support of Mr. .Wallace was adopted unanimously.