EDUCATION COMMISSION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10403, 17 July 1912, Page 4

EDUCATION COMMISSION.

USELESS SUGGESTIONS. Pe? Press Association Wfcl.-iayt'ouj July 17. •.The Rev. J , Da v. sou, tcerttury- of the Kes Zealand Alliance, giving evidence before. the 'Euncasion Oonamission, said the Alliance urged She necessity of compulsory scientific instruction in public tc.ocls regarding the effects of alcohol It She txath hboufe the taking of alcohol ware taught official!*'and Bsetamatio* ally only good would- -result Temperance wall sheets alone did 'not meet the case. ; Dr. tiogben, Inspector-General of Schools,-reviswo'J. some suggestions which had been pas forward. Ha aaid oommunitj- on intoxeac'would be sacrificed by dividing (he education districts into four. it wotad be a species of centralisation with.all the .attendant pedis ok undue centralisation. Proper division, could be nest made in connection vvidi a general scheme of local ■.government under which euuoatiim expenditure could be charged to ioeai rates. Assuming that education would acme under the local government echeme he maue the following aaggeac; una :•—l. Present education oifti-rios boards and school' committees ■ w 'be abolished with the reservation that- he had some (tenbis oa the question of committees. g, None of toe eunca- . tiua . diitrjctfe »u na ‘oenterminous with new tnau!iea 3 &u ouucatioa beard- to be in each education district as follows:—bix members chosen by the Oouiity Oouuoil from amobg6ii. its own members, two members -el.oted by the primary -tciauinire- of tha public primary sosocis In. .she. •. ounty. two members eleotscj by ail uensr certificated teachers .employed for not less than twenty -bouts » week, and one member appointed b> the Professorial Board of fhe University Collage ta be appointed annually, Half of the ■ 'membeta before mentioned to retire; eaob year, the Uounoil to fiiiv ucauoiea, bat not from its own members, if (be bodies named -fail to eject within sixty days. ,