EDUCATION BILL.
PROPOSALS OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copy (Received June 29, 0.24 a.m.) London, June 28. In the House of Commons, Mr. Balfour stated that, owing to the critical attitude of the Opposition towards the measure, the Education Bill would be withdrawn. This session the Government ■would introduce a single-clause measure dealing with' the emergency created by the Cockerton Judgment, by giving the control of secondary education to the local authorities instead of the school boards. The judgment roleiTed to was given by the Queen's Bench, to the effect that the . school boards could not pay from the school board rate for science and art teaching in the day schools, or elementary teaching in evening schools, to persons of more than IjS-i years of age.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11692, 29 June 1901, Page 5
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