WANGANUI JOTTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1482, 3 July 1912, Page 4

WANGANUI JOTTINGS.

tßy Teleffraph.—Special Correspondent.! Wanganui, July 2. Several members of tlie Wangaimi Chamber of Commerce are much annoyed at the decision of tho Wangaiun Lducation Board to put into operation those clauses of the .Education Act providing for compulsorv Attendance at continuation classes. Ho far as hoys,are concern. c(l the=e classes aro to bo held in t lie evening, lmt at last night's meotinfi of tho chamber several speakers, beni" untlur the impression that they would lie held in the afternoon, attacked several nliases of the education system. Summed un the objections were: J.lmt education is 'being overdone, that the extension of tho education system was bad tor business, that the instruction nowadays given was inefficient, mid that it girls had to attend the classes it would make the domestic help problem more acute. A member of tho Education Commission, who wis nre-eut at the meeting by invitation, expro«ed a desire that members mould attend the commission and give pvidcnee, but those present declined to have any | official connection with tho commission, and tho only member who Ravo evidence at to-days sitting was tho president Mr. 0 Jl'Tarlaiie), who confined himsell to the complaint of bad writing and the advocacy of swimming being made compnlS °Tlie Customs duties collected at the port of Wanganui continue to show subilantiol increases. l ? oi- the last month tho sum collected was I'G3o(i, against tVwl) in .Tune, ISII, wlule for the balfvcar ended June 30 the total of .£11,596 was collcctcd, as against -E3J,(11,). m the corresponding period ol IJII, an increase of JtGtlaO.