BRITISH & FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16311, 13 August 1917, Page 7

BRITISH & FOREIGN

NEW EDUCATION BILL. EXTENDING THE SCHOOL LIFE. iAustralian and N.Z. Cable Assn. j Received 6 p.m., August 12th. LONDON, August 11. In the House of Commons, Mr Fisher, Minister of Education, introduced an Education Bill for England and Wales. It adheres to the administrative groundwork of the Act of 1902. Mr Fisher stated that it is intended to give every child an unimpeded school life up to the age of fourteen. No child is to be employed for profit under twelve years of age. In order to develop higher forms of education and improve the physical condition of children a novel provision is that every child no longer obliged to attend elementary schools should attend continuance schools receiving full time education to sixteen years, or part timo to eighteen, the latter to bo taken from the employers' time and the schooling to be given in the daytime. The life of the rising generation could only be protected against the injurious effects of industrial pressure by a further measure of State •compulsion;

AN IRISH BY-ELECTION

SINN FEINER RETURNED. Renter's Telegrirms. In the Kilkenny City by-election Mr Oosgrove (Sinn Fein) polled 772 votes> and Mr Mac Guinness (Nationalist) 372; The election was occasioned 'by the death of Mr O'Brien (Nationalist). CHEMICAL WORKS EXPLOSION. MANY KILLED. An explosion occurred in some chemical worts at Barking. Thirteen bodies, all females, Hare already heeh recovered. CONTROL OF COTTON. The Press Bnrean states that a Board o? Trade order empowers the Cotton Control Board to restrict or vary the number of spindles and looms worked in-cotton mills and weaving sheds.