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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1571, 29 September 1905, Page 3

However much sympathy the public may feel for individuals in the public service who have listened to the voice of the charmer, and given forth information that ought to have been treated as confidential, a bias in their favor would have a most detrimental effect on the service at large. If conduct of this kind was condoned in post-office officials, it would be a distinct permission to the whole of the Civil Service to use any private information they might be able to obtain for their own use or for the use of other people, It would be a 'most objjoptiaaable precedent.—Wellington Lance. Tvjo cries heard at the Education Boards’ Conference, just closed, have been “Centralisationand “Consolidation.” The first is an anathema, but the second is looked kindly on by a large section of the Conference. For the benefit of those who may be inclined to underrate the distinction, it shptfid b.e explained that those who vyonlcj consolidate do not wish to suppress outpost schools—i.e., scbopls in new settlements. But ip the older settlements, especially it has become a matter of rebuilding, they think much can be saved in costand added [in efficiency by consoli* dating a number of small schools into one. Centralisation is, it seems, another thing altogether, and generally pertains to the Department of Education. The Conferee passed a resolution affirming ip principle the desirability of consolidation of small schools, and it also lent a favourable ear to the principle of improved conveyance for out-back children to nearest existing school, in preference to i planting a schoolhonse in every hamlet.