INSPECTION OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
(Jhei&tchuhch, March 9. At the last meeting of the North Canterbury Board of Education the Very Esv. Father Cammings, vicar-general of the Roman Catholic j diocese of Chrisrchurcb, applied to have the j Roman CMholic 3chools inspected by the board's j inspectors. The matter came up for considers- | tion afc the board's rcee ing to-day, wh<-n i& w&3 proposed that a committee slould b-; appointed 1 to inquire into the whole question of theinspec- ■ tion ot private schools by the board's inspectors. ' To this Mr A. Saunders moved an amendment j to the effect that — " It would be a violation of j tho first principles of the Constitution Act; of New Zealand, as well as of the letter and spirit of the New Zealand Education Act, if the North J Canterbury Board ot Education were tosaroiiou ! the diversion to any sectarian or denom-nation^l [ purpose of any portion, however srnss.ll, of the j large sums of public money collected from all I classes and denominations in New Zealand, and entrusted to them for the promotion of free, secular, and unsectarian instruction of the whole of the children of <New Zaalaad." This •was carried by six vot-s to three.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2298, 17 March 1898, Page 12
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INSPECTION OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
Otago Witness, Issue 2298, 17 March 1898, Page 12
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