SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS
Questions For Householders
The Canterbury School Committees' Association has had under coneideiation the questiou of arousing more interest in School Committee election?. Conditions have arisen which make it imperative this year more than ever before that wide and intelligent interest should be taken in there elections, The Association has therefore decided to distribute the following circular, and to take action on the lines auggested by. it. Arrangements have already been made fcr several members of Parliament and others to address preliminary meetings at various schools, aod it is confidently hoped that every Committee that has not already takeu action will do so at an early date.
An Urgent Warning and Appeal
Local Educational Control in Danger.
The ciroular is as follows :
Do you wish jour primary schools to become Government Departments ? Do you wish to send your children to them as you post a letter or parcel in the Post Office ?
Are you willing for all local control, and even for all provincial control of your childrens’ schools to be whittled away, and under these conditions do you expect local aid and interest to survive ?
Do you believe in taxation without representation ? Do you believe in Free Education, and if so do yon know that our primary education is becoming leas and le-,s free every year, and the opposite principle of local taxation for primary educational essentials is being insidiously introducd ? Do you believe in secular education and if bo do you know that under the present centralising and devitalising polioy, the number and strength of sectarian schools in New Zealand is increasing by leaps and boupds ? Do you approve of the principle of any funds being raised locally for ths ordinary necessary maintenance expenses or equipment of pnblio sofcools, whether sums ao raised be subsidised by the Government or not ? The meeting cf householders for the election of School Committees for the ensuing year takas place throughout.the district at 7.30 o’clock on Monday evening ne~* at the various entr
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 April 1917, Page 4
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333SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 25 April 1917, Page 4
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