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1916. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION COMMITTEE (REPORTS OF THE). (Mr. THOMSON, Chairman.)

Presented to the House of Representatives, and ordered to be printed.

ORDER OF REFERENCE. Extract from the Journals of the House of Representatives, Monday, the 10th Day of July, 1910. Ordered, " That a Select Committee be appointed, consisting of ten members, to consider all matters relating to school-teachers, education and public instruction generally, public-school training of teachers, higher education, technical education, manual instruction, and such other matters affecting education as may be referred to it; to have power to call for persons and papers ; three to be a quorum : the Committee to consist of Mr. Anderson, Mr. Guthrie, Mr. Isitt, Mr. Malcolm, Mr. Poland, Mr. Sidey, Mr. Statham, Mr. Thomson, Mr. Wright, and the mover."-—(Hon. Mr. Hanan.)

INDEX. Page. No. 203. Atkinson, N., and 1,378 others . .- .. J No. 229. Miller, Elizabeth 11 .. .. ..2 Special report (re Chairman) . . . . .. 2 No. 245. -Thomson, J. A., and 78 others . . .. 2

EBPOETB. No. 203.--Petition of N. Atkinson unci 1,378 Others, of Wellington. PRATING that the Imperial system of d ress-cutting may be used in the technical and high schools of the Dominion. I am directed to report that the Committee is of opinion the evidence given demonstrates that charts are not educative, but rather of utilitarian value, and, as charts are not excluded from secondary and technical schools in Victoria, their use should be made optional in the technical and secondary schools of the Dominion. The Committee strongly recommends that Miss Roberts should be given an opportunity of proving her confidence in her own scheme and its value b)' being placed in charge of a class for a period of six months. sth August, 1916..