CURIOUS FACTS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 287, 1 November 1878, Page 7

CURIOUS FACTS.

+ The last educational report in England shows that since 18(59 the Government or Board schools have provided an increase of accommodation for 705,122 scholars, while "voluntary schools'" have provided room for 1,182.352 additional pupils, from this it will be seen that the i ondon Time? after all was correct when he said the principal portion of the work of popular education was being done by the denominational or religious party. The same thing in the end I suspect will be seen hcie. Government subsidise all schools in England. The expense to them of each pupil in a Board school is ;£2 Is. 4£d. ; in voluntary schools, £1 13s. lid. "If any one had said in the debates of 1870," says the London Saturday liei-iew, "that in seven years the voluntary system woulel have provided nearly double as much accommodation as the Board schools system, he would have found scarcely any one to believe him. If the New Zealand Government would treat voluntary schools as fairly as the English Government treat them, the same results might be seen here. But it does not suit secularists to be put to the necessity of aiding voluntary schools. Least of all docs it suit Mr. J. Shechan, the Head Centre of New Zealand Secularism?