EDUCATION COMMISSION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15048, 18 July 1912, Page 8

EDUCATION COMMISSION.

INSPECTOR-GENERAL'S .VIEWS.

£ ' [BT TELEGBAPH. — association.] s'f Wellington, Wednesday. ■ Mr. HogbeS: (Inspector-General of "' ? Schools) reviewed before the Educational " Commission some suggestions which had been put forward. He said community of interest . would be sacrificed by dividing !' '• s , education districts into four. A proper : division could bo best made in connection

with a general scheme of local government., under which education expenditure could

be charged to local rates. Assuming that education would come under the local government scheme, Mr. Hogben made the following suggestions— (1) The present education districts, boards and school committees to be abolished, with the reservation that he had some doubts on the question of committees; (2) new education districts to be conterminous with new counties; (3) an education board to be constitutaLin each education district as follows:—Six members " chosen by the county council from amongst

its own members, two members elected by primary teachers of the public and primary schools in the country, two members elected by all other certificated teachers employed for not less than twenty hours a week, one member appointed by the pro- ; fessorial board of the university college to be appointed annually; half of the members before-mentioned to retire each year, the council to fill vacancies, but not from Tf its own members, if the bodies named fail to elect them within sixty days. 'v TEMPERANCE INSTRUCTION. , ' [by telegraph.— ASSOCIATION.] ;' ' Wellington, Wednesday. Rev. J. Dawson (secretary of the NewZealand Alliance), giving evidence before th« Education Commission, said the Allien nee urged the necessity of compulsory scientific instruction in public schools regarding the effects of alcohol. If the truth about the taking of alcohol were taught officially and scientifically only good would result. Temperance wall-sheets alone did not meet the case. \ CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOLS, [py TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DrxEDix, Wednesday. Replying to the Education Commission's request, asking for information concerning small schools in Otago which might bo consolidated, the Otago Board decided not to name any small primary schools which could be absorbed with economy and greater efficiency.