A AUCKLAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1411, 23 March 1905, Page 3

A AUCKLAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, last night.

At a mooting of tho Board of Education, the diraotor of teohnioal education reported Shat Chore had been a large increase of students at technical classes. Tho increase had amounted, to 26 per eont. over la»* year at Thames, and 60 per ueui. as Auckland. At a meeting of tho City schools committee tho question arose as to the right of a parent to take a child from one school and send it to another without first obtaining a transfer permit. It was argued that a parent could Bond his ohild to a different sohool every week in the year if he sol pleased, while others of the committee j were emphatic in their opinion that such I a course would speedily result in his I penalisatiou under tho Truant Act. I The Congregational Churoh Union is | making considerable efforts to raiso a pas- I tor’s provident fund with a capital of not I less than £3OOO. Already £ISOO is in I hand, and sums of £SOO from Wellington, I £4OO from Auckland, £IOO from Otago, I and £3O from Canterbury have been pro- I raised, iu fact but £344 of tbo romainiog I £ISOO is necessary, Mr G- Fowlds, I at tho oongregationalist’s meeting last night, said the committee intended to I do its best to complete the fund this year. I