FREE SECONDARY EDUCATION.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11489, 23 January 1903, Page 6

FREE SECONDARY EDUCATION.

THE DEPARTMENTS PROPOSA^jI (PRESS ASSOCIATION* TELEGftAK.) > Mkß AUCKLAND, Janutryflli The proposals of the iiducatioa m| ment for an extended system eeoondary education to scholars of ptiilKt schools were partially dtacuseed at a mM of the Auckland Grammar School Bod9| Governors to-day. The subject kad'|jH| brought up at the previous referred to a Committee, but °*2PiijjE various reason* the Committee hwx iJ| port to submit. . • .'isHj The Chairman (Sir O. M. introducing the subject, said thai HtjH no desire to fly in the face of tfc£j9B vernment, but he did not see JrofiJßß proposals could be acceded,. Board were asked to reduce tite feefcfe £10 to . £6, and thus to ecalea of feee, one for ordinary another for pupils from pnm»ry'idilM| He thjougiit it would be-M wftH towjMS Departnwnt if it were not bows „ modifications of toe prop<*«Ji«H would, make them' more aceptftbl* W&& Board, or to confer with ' the Department on tii* 'iubject. / . Vvoteesor Brown eedd the «doptfoaiHH proposals would nob wactJy ecaJee of ■ feee,'' ms. tii* £6 P* , y n *< l be a-eobeidy -from tha- '; ' The' Chairman «»I<l thereV ni'jß rat«B of payment nndoubtedly, Tli;SH| tki iß6' a year. ~. • ■ V-^: : .#; .JH Tie Hon. J. A. Tofc eaid the »ifflH vice would. be co' far ac the' Board WMeonceraedjMK would ije two scaleerofffeee.; -;-,*j-:..\%i -^^H Profeasor Brown eeid the very crude, and shpinld be improvedlaH before being accepted. Hβ ferenoe with the Education Bt»«d..w|H possible, with the Department am , **s£M thought. ti«t no pupil ehonld go to the Grammar School for' only. There was a tendency in tion, and whikt it did ptrpili no wan bod Sox education thought the proposals ehoutd be bmJIH co that no free plao* would'•"% without a guarantee that, seen circumetanoee, the pupila Wo;|jA|lHH at eohool for three years. be coneidered wm tfae fact the present?«cnooT*courae wajJljbiijßH a year, and was thue not with the' present fee*,. ■, ...'-- After further discueeioc the ;qtwwH