THE EDUCATION BILL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 80, 25 July 1914, Page 2

THE EDUCATION BILL.

CONFERENCE AT WANGANUI.

[PIB Peebs Association ] Foilding, July 25

The members of the Wauganui Education Board, with Mr G. B. Braik (Chief Inspector) and Mr Swanger (Secretary) held a conference here yesterday, and considered the Education Bill.

It was arranged that Mr Braik should give evidence, and, if possible, the chairman (Mr Pirani) before the Education Committee of the House.

Amongst the anomalies objected to was the proposal to pay head teachers and assistants of girls' schools and infant schools £6O and £4O a year respectively, less than similar teachers in mixed schools. OBJECTION TO A CLAUSE. Pahiatua, July 24. The headmaster of the Pahiatua District High School drew the attention of his committee to the clause in the new Education Bill that if parents do not have the recommendation of the medical officers attended to they will 4>e liable to prosecution. He believed this to be absolutely wrong in principle and practice. If the school committees throughout the country expressed their opinion against the clause, he was sure they would have influence in preventing such a pernicious regulation from getting into the Act. The committee decided to forward a letter to the Minister for Education, and also to the member for the district, objecting to the clause complained of. PROTEST FROM OAKURA. A well-attended meeting of settlers at Oakura passed the following resolution :—That the settlers of' the district emphatically protest against the removal of tho Education Board from New Plymouth, for the following reasons—(l) That the district can be much better administered from New Plymouth, the capital of tho province; (2) that the members of the Education Board are elected from different localities throughout the district, and are therefore in a much better position to look after educational matters than would be possible if the proposal of the new Education Bill were given effect to; and (3) that if the boundaries are to be revised, any alteration should be in the direction of making the districts of boards more equal in size.