FOXTON LOCAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 3, 3 September 1878, Page 2

FOXTON LOCAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

r ied~For~--Mesrs Why to, Stewart 1 j Litldell, and Flower. Against — Messrs Pureell, Loudon and Gray. Tiie Committee therefore decided to alter the origiual plans, so as to fulfil the wishes of the Board. Referring to the resolution, the Chairman said he had voted as ho had done, simply so as to get the additions, but he considered the ac«. tion of the Board despotic and unjust. Mr Loudon said the resolution was passed simply "because the Committee was forced into it. PUPIL TEACHERS. The Chairman brought under notice of the Committee a circular from the Board, requiring pupil teachers to attend at Wanganui I'or examination at 10 a.m. on Friday, 13th Sept. He thought the Committee should protest against this centralising tendency of the Board. iNJr Hulke, the master, attended the meeting by invitation, and re. ferred to the inabilities under which the pupil teachers would labour in going to Wanganui. The system of supervisors was the best. For a pupil teacher to have a test lesson with a strange class, was unfair. He had written an official protest to the Chairman of the Board. Various centres should be appointed. The Board put obstacles in the way of pupil teachers, and yet wondered why so few offered. He had written to other teachers, and intended to use his influence on behalf of the pupil teachers. An error had mad* 1 vertently been committed by the | Inspector, and the Board had un* \ wittingly followed him. Mr Stewart expressed his agreement with Mr Hulke's remaiks, and moved the following resolution : — "tw th m amg^ii|hilii7ii YtnT \

the country should be taxed^ipi the profits they made. The Govern*! ment were opposed to an incomo tax. Ea fen-ing to the duty on beer, he said that the tax would fall eventually on the consumers. The con 1 sumption of Knglish beer had greatly fallen off, owing to the heavy duty upon it. The whole cost of collecting the beer duty would not amount to over £500, owing to the system ofj stamp duty which wonld be employed J The Government were in favor of fre<| trade. The Government believed that New Zealand's true policy was to cultivate trade with other cpuntries until we have attained a position as absolutely free in our commerce as England herself. They proposed to remove the duties from raw materials used in colonial manufactures. They had taken the import duty off grain, because New Zealand did not require to be protected. It was most boun* tifully protected by nature, and in regard to soil and climate stood in a position unrivalled by any other country in the world. The Govern' ment was firmly convinced that the adoption of their proposals would tend to the iucreased prosperity of the colony and its people. Mr Wool* cock (of Graymouth) opposed the Government proposals, and Mr Saunders agreed with portions of them, whilst others he opposed. Mr De Latour defended, and Mr Suttoa opposed the proposals. The debate was then adjourned until yesterday, when Mr Wakefield was to resume it.