EDUCATION BOAD.
S?HE CADET MOVEMENT.
METHOD OF ELECTION.
By; telegraph’, P*ess Ass’a. Copyright, Wellington, last night. The Public School Cadet movement came in for some eraticißm at to-day’s meeting of the Education Board. The chairman, Mr J. RobertsoD, said tho extremes that were gone to in this direction were positively ridiculous. He understood that it did not go too well with teachers who failed to show enthusiasm for cadet business, Tno boys’ time wonld be much better spent at physical exercise than in such military show. J
Mr Hogg, M.H.R., said thera was a revulsion of feeling al) over tho colony against it. The fact that such strenuous efforts were being made to keep the movement alive showed it was losin" ground. ' w
The Education Board tq-day discussed the method of electing members, and Mr Kebbell moved : (1) That tho Wellington Education Board District be divided iinfco nine single electorates for tho purpose of electing members, and (2) that members be elected as at present by committees. The first clause was carried unanimously, but Messrs Hogg and Field, M.’sH.R., voted against t-ho second clause. Ifc was' resolved to forward a resolution to other Boards to elicit from them their opinions on the proposition.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1518, 28 July 1905, Page 2
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