SCHOOL COMMITTEES' ASSOCIATION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 201, 14 May 1918, Page 8

SCHOOL COMMITTEES' ASSOCIATION

AN NT AT, MEETING. The annual meeting of the Wellington hchool Committees' Association was held last evening. Mr. W. K Fuller, president: of the association and chairanan of the Mount Cook School Committee, presided, and there was an excellent attendance of delegates. The school committees affiliated and represented at. the meeting were Berliainpore, Brooklyn, Clyde Quay, Island Bay, Jvurori, Ktwndallah, KiJbir'iiie, Ifaiwarra, Maranui, Mount Cook, Muritai, Newtown, Mgaio, Northland. South Wellington, The Terrace, and Wcreer Bay. ' The Lower Hutt District High School Committee applied for affiliation, which was granted.

The adoption of the annual re-port of tho executive, already publishiKl, was ; formally moved by the chairman. Mr. A. J. Pater'on, of tl» Northland School ■ Committee, in aecimdivig the motion, ccm- ' gratulated the extcutive on the excel--1 lence of the leport, r.hd commented on 1 the splendid attendance. He directed the attention of the meeting to the ffixjt : that the buys would :te called to take- administrative post? at an earlier date than ' their fathers, coMecjdently odncation ' must be pumped Into them, and they 1 would probably have less iime for relaxation. Tho association would hiive plenty of work to do in the current and subsequent, years, lie congratulated the executive oil the work accomplished in the past year, and be ventured to hope that the school committees not already affiliated with the association would be induced to join. One or two other speakers added their felicitations and the motion whs carried. According to the balance-sheet, the amount brought forward from the previous year was 175., and the year closed with "a credit balance of £1 15s. 10d. The receipts, including the amount brought lorv.aivi, totalled .?19 Os. Id., aud the expenditure amounted to -CIG Is. 3d. lne balance-sheet was adopted, subject to be, ing audited. , , '('he election of officers resulted as iol-lows:-President, Mr. A. G. Wallace (Kilbirnic School): vice-presidents, Messrs. I ,1 Clark (Kilbirnie), William Wiles .\ewtown), and H. Brenton-Ri; e (Ngaio); secretary, MrA.J. White (Brooklyn); treasurer. Mr. E. B. b. Hill f Brooklyn); auditor, Mr. L. J. Colley (Is-'The"liMviv-elected president, in thanking the meeting for the honour done him, said ho thought a great deal could bo accomplished by working in co-opera-ion with the Teachers' Association and L " New Zealand Educational ns itute lie was strongly in fa™" , , ot . oC . h ? 01 W ,ol;; iVin- supplied free, and maintained that tlie present system was burden"me o. parent,- with large amil.es. Ho S was'in favour of a federation of er-linnl committees' associations. He emphSell Z Med for technical educa- ; lion to meet the new conditions th* were bound to arise after tht™. was from tho technical school that, the} wmi'd got their best workers. Ho was of I opinion that the colleges were 75 per , cJnt ««ank and 25 per cent, worthwhile the'technical schools represented ,5 pei cent, work and *> per cent, swank. Uβ brawn ami brain of the country would come mainly from the technical colleges. It wa? a. matter of urgent necessity that. WelHu"t<m should have a technical school worthy of the city.