NATIONAL EDUCATION INQUIRY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 155, 20 March 1918, Page 4

NATIONAL EDUCATION INQUIRY

THE PRELIMINARIES,

In oonnection with the opening of the education. inquiry yesterday, the chairman of tho National Efficiency Board (Mr. AV. Ferguson) and Mr. Moss, Wellington District Commissioner, waited upon tho Hon. .1. A. Hanan, Minister of Education, with a view to explaining the directions in which the board desired to inquire respecting education as applied' to, the industries of the Dominion,-both primary and secondary. The Minister gavo tho representatives of the board somo most valuable information as to tho work which the Education Department had already done in mans directions, and promised to assist in every way. Ho expressed his pleasure that tho inquiry was to run on lines parallel with the views which ho himself favoured, but which he had not been able to bring ''into active _ operation owing to tho difficulties arising out- of tho war conditions. Tho Hon. Mr. Hanan said tliat ho would be pleased, both personally and by tho' officers of the Education Department, to rentier every assistance to. the .board, and he was also glad to know that the hoard's intentions would in no way traverse the work which had been and was being undertaken by tho Education Department and himself.