EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10781, 1 June 1911, Page 3

EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

(Per Press Association.) Wanganui, May 31. U the annual conference of the School Committees' Associate to-night resolutions were earned that the schools be supplied with umv,rSal reading books and that children U allowed to take them home or thatthe parents be given an opportunity to purchase similar books forborne use, :bt tiK.se in authority appoint a censor „i moving pictures; that it is not in the interests of our young people that Hißiarv schools he placed on the saint. as district high.schools as mari; subsidies; that single desksbe icpruved: that the Minister of kuncatin he recommended to issue a journal r ,/. nation; that too much time is nature studv to the neglect « m,re important work, and that steps ':, t.k.n tobring about a. more desirKle state of affairs connected therenth: that this conference egrets the '*» extent to which overcroWcluig prevaiL- in some of our schools in the eduction district; that Associafao» fcondv disapproves of the DepaTtxent s action in requesting commit- ** t., contribute half-cost of P™™**- *- pi.litional areas for playgrounds.