IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10726, 25 June 1906, Page 2

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

TOE EDUCATION BILL.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright.) LONDON, June 23. Mr Bi.i_.lTs .iniondmenit to tho fourth clausji of the Education Bill provides a ballot! m order that parent** may .mve the opportunity of expressing tlieir wishes. No' rent shall be naid if extended facilities are granted, but if refused owners may appeal to the Board of Education, and the latter may order extended focill. tic. ,'or M they think expedient under special .circumstances, coniinue State iiUl without levying a rate, and the school will thus be freed from, popular cotvtix)., voluntary -mbscriptions replacing rates, iim formof contracting out is limited to five yeanS. Radical newspopera dislike Mr Blrrell's cumbiroits amendments to clause 4, which they describe, as a safety valve to sectarian difference. The Daily Chronicle say« tlmt any large amoi|nt of 00-rntriwrtitiuf out i» not likely to be extended as v safeguard against abuse of ixjjwer on tbie part of local authorities. Tlie Daily Telegraph says the propositi to deprive a. school of rate uid is a dis- \ tinct invitation to local authorities to release arrangements nnd save fates. Mi| Balfour, speaking at Church ffouso m tlie presence of the Archbishop of Onnlerbijry, declared tliat Mr Blrrell't. im. politic attempt oil the OliUirch'fl right to teach her own children had loused and united every <?ection, Tlie amendment to clause 4 intensified tho confuajon, and* had not diminished the Unfairness of tha Bill.;