Opening of the New Education Buildings.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 18 August 1891, Page 2

Opening of the New Education Buildings.

• -» he formal opening of the new Education offices end School of Design took place or Friday afternoon in one of the large downstairs claesi'doms.. : Tie ! room'twas filled *• ith a numerous" and jep't'osentative nsstfuiblage including'; fliany members of Parliament, City Councillors, Harbour' Boaftl officMs^nrid clergymen, representing' • different denominations, County- School Com* in i ttees'j > teachers art d othe k s. - Mr Jiß. Blair, the foh airman of thf Education Baar<3, whfcy on rising was received with cheers, gave the history of the' present building. He fSfjicl that, in the .year JSjBJj- Jhe old rfficeiitfifl oeeti sold over their head, aud. when Sir Robert Stout, was in power a site upon which to erect hew premises was given them cor. conditions, however, that the structure was built wjthir^aqprt^in'time, and if not "the mle would revert to the Government. ~Tfcfl Boardnhen, as might be expect e5 f set about business in real eafti^stVVMi'- Blair here dxpLine'd that the site granted them vtia not trite-present one For thw they '• \vn& ijidfehtea; . t& the City Council who made a transfer, and lie considered the Education Board had along way the 'best of " the;- bargain, Mr Blair next referred to^he large cost of- education for -the colony, and expressed his belief c that the whole system Lefote lonig would have to be reorganised . . :He • hn d . heard it mooted that the management should be i eft under the control of one Minister. , Such an idea ihe characterised as the most denfrfcratic he he ever heard, and he was sure it» , would never' work] I Ad-fiJ^He question of economy, Mr Blair deprecated! the idea of ' iiboli&liing tho jnfanfe schobls, beciu3e<he considered Ujgyi; a 'moat timjjdrlaiit part of the educational system. !!Hßac(4r»i3fired that the majority . of tbjnio ; persons who were in tevoar of raising the age of . bhildreri attending scHtwllwere tboBR who had 'a prbptewy/iorgamsed homo. From his (the speaker's experience the youiger cliildrtn wlio attended the schools belonged to people who had small accomttiodajtibi . m their houses.. There were ia¥ri^ ! Wajs, he '• ihotigiit, iii which a saving in the expenditure might be effected without rnisiag ;the ape at Which children should attend echoo:, and suggested in support of his tontentioii, the ■ •rgnmsing of primary schools on a different basis MtT Blair next re* ierred iq -the 'vtfn&pectors, 1 ' whom, he said, were, leokeH upon fis oocupyifig pnpitions, the reversp of whßt was" usually. "supposed.; in faot, tiic Ins-pector was tbe ority^rot^ctw the parents hhd — he was the^arent'a rfff reeenfative. and not ilie Board's. As it garcis Technical Education, he alwajs looked upon itxLa.am»pst important factor 'ia-fche' education of the yoimg^.and the Boar^.^wAS .endeavouring, to nwke the system, aasimple and .complete . as possible , so that every boy prgiri migh.t.-.have a knowledge of ,4raw,iflg,;.^n./!all its branches. The school, so -Jar, had .verj.gQpd.rea^^in support of which * aesiertibn l he" pentioned that the pupilsTiere had beat^ those 1 belonging* to th^-Symiey-sfeßool. ; , T,hp Hon My, PpUeston, r M.H.R., congratntaif^th'e people ton upqn "Jiaving erected such a iiiibsfcaiitiaT ; iand^ :i TleeHl building. He hoped thatijefereJo^f/Welliugton would^havft'-iKUniversity, and when the- came for it he assured the Education Board and those present ' that' he- -would do alii in his power to assist them in securing its , establishment in this .city. Mr Blair said T hef ;: lio^ed'4he time was not far off When Mr Bolleston would be able io^give^Uiß valuable aid in that important direction. The proceedings then terminated.. , N. Z.

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