STONING A BILL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1444, 20 May 1912, Page 4

STONING A BILL.

WHY EDUCATION MEN ARB IIEIIE. In convening a conferenoo of Education Hoard dMegutes, to consider tho Local Government Bill, tho North Canterbury Hoard has been act tinted by considerations which will be laid before tho conference in the following forms— 1. That tho education 'of the children ot tho Dominion is of such vital importance that, its administration should be kept entirely separata from that of ati oilier public services, and should continue under tho control of bodies Reeled by school committees for the speual and sole purpose of discharging tho functions nnd duties oonncctcd therewith. •J, That the duties connected with tho Administration of primary eduea'hn aro utterly dissimilar to tho duties devolving upon the other local bodies naincd_ in too Bill, ami consequently 110 tweriappiug oi' functions as tieiwoeu Education Boards, and other local bodies can be said iO ' li! That to place tho Administration of primary education isi the hands 01 committees subordinate to nubile wh<ttt* members, h<wovpr fiblo, would nou hnvo timo to tunko thomsolvos closi'b ftc* ftimin'cd with the manv unties such commit tees would be called upon to nischaw, would be a retrograde step, eminently unsatisfactory to all concerned, and especially so to school commit.ees. 4. That no good grounds lmvc been diselcsed for abolishing the present svstiMU. under which Education Boards are olecled l,v members of senool 5. That the appointou-nt ot four Mcictlounl committed, ,n y l klrioted w»ers and Inaction?, to «.*- e'Hirtre the dutir« aow pei'lortncrt I). Kdnmliou boards would make neither (or elVieiencv nor economy. (i Tli.it tlii* tendency 01 Fiouuual Councils, when appointing '"'nv'ii mitteos, would th' to appoint hen o\ u mem tiers, and that thereiore t =uItMowleiU'o sMisht to bo seemed M " pro, Won* of 'tho Bill nsijftit not be

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