POWERS OF APPOINTMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1928, Page 11

POWERS OF APPOINTMENT

DEPARTMENT & THE BOARD WELLINGTON COLLEGE DISPUTE. NEW REGULATION EXPLAINED. Bj Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Director of Education (Mr. T. B. Strong) to-day issued a statement in reply to the attack made on the department by members of the Wellington Education Board at yesterday's meeting over the disagreement concerning the appointment of a principal to the Wellington Training College. Defending the attitude of the department, Mr.. Strong emphasised that the proposed new regulations covering appointments did not limit the power of the board any more than did tho old regulations which, however, failed to prescribe the course of action to be followed when a deadlock was reached. The present regulations were shown to be imperfect, inasmuch as they did not prescribe any course of action when the two parties to the appointment disagreed land neither would give way. The proposed amended regulations were made on the advice of the SolicitorGeneral that the present ones were imperfect for the reason above stated, and in ordr to give full and definite effect to the intention of the original regulation, namely, that the Minister shall decide who shall- be appointed to training college staffs. Ever since training colleges had been established this had been the rule. It must be clearly understood that the new regulations did not take away any power the board had had, but it was intended to prevent an important appointment being held up indefinitely. The department’s only motive was to secure the strongest possible principal for the training college.