MINISTER FOR EDUCATION
"BEST NEW ZEALAND EVER HAD." MR ISITT'S TRIBUTE. (By Telegraph). i From Our Parliamentary Correspondent WELLINGTON, July 23. A warm tribute to the work, zeal and enthusiasm of the Minister for Education was paid by Mr Isitt to-day. ! He said he felt it his duty to say that jHir James Parr was one of the best Ministers for Education the Dominion . had ever had. He performed his duties i in no perfunctory spirit and was honest j and enthusiastic in his desire to meet the educational conditions of the Dominion. As a member of the Canter bury Education Board, he (Mr Isitt) 'had often interviewed Sir James Parton education matters and had never gone to him without receiving a reply that lhe speaker was convinced was , right. A Liberal member: “You have <’arued it. ’' Mr Isitt: “You have your opinion |and I havc mine. I “Don’t quarrel,’’ interjected Air Nosworthv. 1 Mr Isitt said that irrespeetivr of any party feeling ho considered it was due to say that in Sir James Parr they had , a man who was really doing his utmost ; to serve the Dominion's interests, es- ' perially in an important matter like j (‘duration. That fact should be recognised and he congratulated lhe ; country on it.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19366, 24 July 1925, Page 5
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