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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 23 December 1922, Page 9

“Sometimes it is levelled as a reproach at high schools that they are too academic ,and that therefore the education is narrow,” said Mr G. Lancaster, headmaster of the. Boys High School, in his report at Christchurch. “Even if our school did nothing but prepare for Canterbury College, the curriculum would surelv be wide enough for most pupils, considering the varied curricula of the college, whore students prepare not only for the orthodox arts and science courses, but also for medicine and dentistry, for law and music, for commerce and journalism, not- to mention the various courses* of the National School of Engineering.”

“We will never hove a satisfactory basis of working,” said Air h. Coopei in the Arbitration Court at Christchurch, “until the Court, has mandatory power to order parties to meet in Dominion conference.” Mi' Cooper cited the recent engineering dispute, where there had been separat e lira rings in four centres, as an instance of the difficulty with which the Court was faced in respect to Dominion awards (states the Lyttelton Times). The aioxt amendment 'to the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, ho said, should be along the lines of granting the Court power in such cases to order the parties to hold a Dominion conference in order that a basis might be arrived at for subrnilling the matter to the Court.