LONDON EDUCATION BILL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9752, 25 May 1903, Page 2

LONDON EDUCATION BILL

— ■ ♦ NONCONFORMIST PROTEST. Eleotrio Telegraph— Copyright— United Press Association. (Received May 25, 10.9 a.m.) LONDON, May 24. As a protest against the London Education Bill, hundreds of Nonconformists, including the -congregations of churches, led by their ministers, members of trades union and benevolent societies, held a procession throughout the city. They met on the Thames Embankment and marched to tHyde Park, singing hymns, with banners flying and bands playing. The brilliant weather attracted a hundred thousand people to the Park, where a great demonstration was held. -Twelve platforms were erected. Dr Clifford, president of the Metropolitan Free Churches Council, other ministers, Lloyd George, and members of the House of Commons denounced the Bill. It was urged that it would lead to the destruction of the School Board by the overweighing of the County Council. The speala*^, claimed that it* was necessary that^HHT schools should be- controlled by a directly , elected body. The Government had previously announced that m consequence of last Wednesday's debate m the House of Commons, the Borough Council's functions would be confined to local management, the proposed representation of a central committee being abandoned.