SCHOOL COMMITTEES' ASSOCIATION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 263, 2 August 1919, Page 9

SCHOOL COMMITTEES' ASSOCIATION

CHRISTCHUKCH RESOLUTIONS. Hj Teleeranh—Press Association.' Christchurch, August 1. At a meeting of the Chrisfchurch School Committees' Association, the following resolution was carried: "That, in view of the altered conditions of traffic generally, the committee recommends the Education Department to introduco a provision in the syllabus for the teaching of children in elementary rules governing safety in the- use of the streets and footpaths." The following remits were adopted for the forthcoming conference of school committees' associations in Wellington: "That the Government he asked to do all in its power to facilitate the holding of open-air classes in connection with schools. That with a view of promoting the genoral efficiency of primary education in the Dominion, the Government be urged to increase the annual education grant to a least .£3,000,000. that no concessions or subsidies be granted to any private schools. That if any educational legislation in that direction is contemplated, the conference strongly protests, against any system of centralisation or other alteration of the Education Act whercbv the present funcJ lO ." 3 , of = ch ° ol committes will be curtailed. That a federation of school committees associations be formed, to bf. called the Federated School Committees' Associations of New Zealand."