ABSENT MINISTER

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11702, 14 December 1923, Page 5

ABSENT MINISTER

EDUCATION BUSINESS HELD UP. “NO ONE IN AUTHORITY.” Fer Pics Association. DUNEDIN, December 13. Reference to the Hon. O. J. Parr s (Minister for Education) absence from the Dominion was made at the Education Board, and the fact that he had left no one in authority was commented on Tho chairman. Mr Wallace, remarked that until Mr PaiT comes back there is no one in authority to do anything and the whole education business seems to be held up.

STAJEMENT DENIED MR CAUGHLEY ISSUES CHALLENGE. Per Press Association. OHRISTCHURCH, December 13. Mr J. Caugbley, Director of Education, who passed through Christchurch to-night on his return to Wellington from the south, issued the following statement to the Press Association:- — “The Director of Education invites Mr Wallace, chairman of the Otago Education Board, either to prove or withdraw , his statement, published throughout the Dominion, that the whole education business seems to be held up bjr the absence of the Minister for Education, and that there is no one left in authority to do anything. During Mr Parr’s absence, the Hon. G. J. Anderson is the Acting-Minister for Education, and regularly transacts a large amount of education business, and there is no holding up of the work. Mr Wallace is invited to give a list of matters, other than the building of the Dental School, that he alleges are held up through the Minister’s absence.”