EDUCATION NEGLECTED

Southland Times, Issue 19122, 14 December 1923, Page 5

EDUCATION NEGLECTED

A DUNEDIN COMPLAINT. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 13. Mr J. Caughley, Director of Education, who passed through Christchurch to-night on his return to Wellington from the south, issued the following to the Press Association : “The Director of Education invites Mr Wallace, chairman of the Otago Education Board, either to prove or withdraw his statement published throughout the Dominion, that the whole education business seems to be held up by the absence of the Minister of Education, and that there is no one left in authority to do anything during Mr Parr’s absence. Hon. G. J. Anderson is Acting-Minister of Education and regularly transacts a large amount of education business. There is no holding up of work. Mr Wallace is invited to give a list of matters, other than the building of the Dental School, that he alleges are held up through the Minister’s absence.” At a meeting of the Otago Education Board yesterday, reference was made to the absence in Australia of the Hon C. J. Parr (Minister of Education) and to the fact that he had left no one in authority, the Chairman (Mr Wallace) remarking that until Mr Parr came back there was no one in authority to do anything. “The whole education business,” he said, “seems to be held up.”—Press Association.