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-■>*• 4» (FroraJ^^ Parliamentary Reporter.) ; this* day. |: " S Wm 4 T0 ™E VICTORS." I -A. suflkwjn of the "spoils to the | victors p^Py" was put -forward by .Mr St-ddon, speaking m the House yesterday afternoon, bastid upon happenings m his own district. There was a vacancy I on the Westland Land Board, and to ' everyone's surprise the president of the local Reform League was appointed. ;The people did not. like to think that a spoils to the victors policy waa being pursued. When another gentleman who had served on the Land Board for many years came to the end of his term, every one, said Mr Seddon, thought that after his valuable services he would be reappointed, but not so. He was sent about his business, and a prominent Reformer put upon the Board. The nexs Government speaker was Air Escott (Pahiatua), who quoted, on the other hand, two cases of Liberals being itiappointed to the Wellington Land Board. OUR. EDUCATION SYSTEM. In the course of a speech last evening, the member for Masterton (Mr Sykes) arraigned our system of education administration. "There are," he said, 'no fewer than thirteen education boards m this Dominion, which, I- contend, is out <«f all ; proportion to the; nunjjber 'required m a country- having a population of little more than . a ' '.mifiipnl The sooner the number is reduced the- better will it be for primary education "in 5 this country "In my opinion," continited Air Sykes, "the present education boards should be abolished, and one central board of education situated m Wellington substituted, for. them.;,. We should then have : one luritom^, system of education; throughout' thtt D, ©million. At the present time the standard Vof education is,higher :-in; .some districts than iri others, which- proves -at once the error of our syatem and- the injustice which is being done to the young people of the country who are being educated under it." SELF-GLORIFIOA'iTON. / A query which the Prime Minister has been asked by Mr Hanan to answer suggests some effective, if premature, advertising of the Budget wliich the House is still critically discussing. Mr Hanan wants to know whether it is a fact that on the. 27th June last, before the people had time to form a^full judgment of the Governor's Speech, the Government despatched a cablegram to the High Commissioner, London, m wOiich was the following statement : "Contents of Speech delivered by Governor to-day received with. general approval throughout the Dominion," and if this message was sent, what.evidence have the Government for stating m , this message of self-glorification before the Speech could even have .been read by a majority of the people that the Speech had been received "with general approval?"