Professor T. A. Hunter delivered a singularly outspoken condemnation of the existing system of education at Palmerston recently. In the course of his remarks, Professor Hunter said that the present inadequate schooling accommodation and the under-payment of teachers, and the consequent inferior type of teacher were the result of an indifferent public. It was no use blaming Ministers or Governments, for the simple reason that if there was sufficient public pressure the Minister would respond to the pressure. He was of opinion that a £5,000,000 education , vote was not too much to ask for edu- I cational needs of this country. This country was going back instead of leading. The medical inspection { was a farce, considering the number of children attending the schools and the actual number inspected.
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Northern Advocate, 15 May 1918, Page 3
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