THE EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13296, 27 May 1907, Page 5

THE EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

WELCOME TO THE DELEGATES. Press Associatioh-By Telegraph-Copyright Received 4.35 p.m., Mav 26th. LONDON, May 25. The! Federal Education Conference is being held in Caxton Hall. . Those present included Sir Reginald Talbot, Lord Tennyson, the Agents-General lor the Colonies, the vice-chancellorsi and other representatives of leading universities in Britain and the colonies. The Earl of Crewe, Lord President of the Council, in welcoming the delegates on behalf of the : Government, said that the Conference, though due to private initiative, had received official sanction and encouragement. It would be the first of a series of conferences which were to be l held in different centres of the Empire. . Mr Bent, Premier of Victoria, .described "Victoria's free compulsory secular system, and said that it -vra-s so constituted' that a man possessing brains cctuld pass from the primary school to the university. Education was Victoria's best asset, hence it was worth the £BOO,OOO spent annually upon it. The " Times " describes the Federal Conference on Education as the most remarkable feature of the day. It .savs it is a most inspiring sign of what can be done to bring the Empire together in one important field of effort. The results should be fruitful.