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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 17, 24 April 1902, Page 16

IN MEMORIAM.

Lynch.— ln fond remembrance of my beloved husband, William Lynch, who departed this life 25th April, 1901.— R.1.P. 'Tis bard to break the tender chord When love haß bound the heart ; 'Tis hard, so hard, to speak the words : We for a time must part. Dearest loved one, we have laid thee In the peaceful grave's embrace, But thy memory will be cherished Till we see thy heavenly face. — Inserted by his loving wife and children.

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* To promote the cause of Religion and Justice by the ways of Truth and Peace. 1 Leo XIII. to the N.Z. TABLET.

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1902.

EDUCATION IN ENGLAND.

HE ' Nonconformist conscience,' represented most prominently by Dr. Parker, of the Congregational Temple, and the ministers of the extreme Evangelical school of religious thought, are greatly excited over the Bill to amend the Education Act (England) which has been this session reintroduced by Sir John Gorst, VicePresident of the Council. Jn this Government measure they assume to see the cloven hoof of denominationalism, and are terribly disturbed in mind at the possibilities of the educational influence of the Established Church being increased and extended and fair justice toward Catholic and other non-State scholastic institutions being maintained on a settled liberal basis. The purpose of the Bill is to establish in every part of England and Wales a local educational authority, which is intended to supervise education of eveiy kind, whether elementary, secondary, or technical, and which shall be able to form a plan for the general public education of its district, suitable to the circumstances of the population, and exercise such jurisdiction over all the schools as to prevent overlapping, prevent mischievous competition between one public school and another, and secure a supply of all instruction which the wants of the people require. In asking leave to introduce the Bill, Sir John Gorst stated that the choice of an educational authority lay between the School Boards, modified and altered in certain directions, and County and Countyborough Councils and Urban-district Councils. It had to be considered which of these bodies would best serve the purpose. The objections to the School Board were, in the fiist place, that it did not cover the whole area, and therefore School Boards would have to be made universal, and admittedly areas would have to be altered. Another very practical objection, he said, was, that it would be requisite to take away from the County Councils the powers and funds which they had been administering during the last ten years. In the case of constituting the County Councils the educational authorities there was less difficulty. In the first pace, they were univtr.-al and covered the whole country, and there was no reason, from experience of the worki ng of theTcchnical Instruction A ctt», to fear that all education could not be effectively worked in the area of the County Council. It is proposed to make every Council of every county, and of every county- borough, acting by means of a statutory committee appointed under the Bill, the education authority with certain reservations relating to non-county boroughs and Councils of urban districts. The constitution of this committee was to be appointed by scheme, and not formally prescribed in the Bill : and th's with a view to the County Councils themselves taking the initiative and prefixing