IMPERIAL POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15825, 25 July 1913, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS

HOME RULE AND DISESTABLISHMENT. ATTITUDE OF THE GOVERNMENT. Press Association—% Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 23. The Government lias assured its supporters that, notwithstanding the recent division in the House of Lords, there will be neither a dissolution nor a referendum on the Home Rule and Welsh Church Disestablishment Bills, EDUCATION BILL. SOME IMPORTANT PROPOSALS. LONDON, July 23. In introducing a one-clause Education Bill the President of the Board of Education (Mr Pease) outlined the Government's intentions for a complete Education Bill in 1914. It would, he said, prove costly to do for secondary education what Mr Fowler's Bill in 1870 did for elementary. The new measure would not affect the elementary system nor voluntary schools, but it would provide a broad and smooth road from the elementary school to the university, and remove the grievances of Nonconformists in regard to the single schools area, and would compel the local authorities to provide creches, also technical and secondary schools, baths, and playing fields, meals for poor children, and to grant special holidays. It would also remove the ration limitation, and place the local authorities in a sonnd financial position. The Government would grant a substantial subsidy to enable them to carry out the new scheme.