THE EDUCATION BILL.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8058, 16 November 1906, Page 3

THE EDUCATION BILL.

♦ SPEECH BY MR BIRRELL. LONDON, November 14. The President of the Board of Education (Mr Birrell), speaking at Bristol yesterday, said the amendments of the House of Lords in the Education Bill were the offspring of the mixed marriage of the Church and State, and had inherited the weaknesses of both parties without the strength of either. The Government had no me for such a measure, which, from the House of Commono' standpoint, Liberal or Tory, was seen to be an impossibility. Everybody had deolared that the Act of 1902 was far preferable to the Bill as amended by the House of Lords. He hoped the House of Lords would early recognise they had gone too far and accept the Bill as it reached them, for it was according to the pledges the Liberals had given, and those pledges they intended to keep, otherwise the Constitu'ion must be altered. It was inadmissible that measures backed by the great electoral majorities should be mutilated and destroyed by an unrepresentative assembly. LONDON, November 15. The Times says it is unlikely that the Education Bill will return to the House of Commons before the beginning of December.