DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 70, 31 March 1913, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

MILITARISM AND 1 EDUCATION. (Per Press Association.) .Wellington, Match 28. The Wellington /’Education Board this afternoon adopted a rpcommenda tion approving the'condition suggest eel by a circular from the InspectorGeneral of Schools that free place hold n s be required to comply with th& 6bn ,’itions of the Defence ’Act. J ' 1

Mr A. W. Hogg said thatX'flTuh approving of the training of ’aditl't) bo defend tho country, he was opposed co militarism in the expensive fom introduced in New Zealand, and ti interference with personal liberty. H, moved an amendment, regretting tha the Minister of Education should have considered it advisable tb' education system by thb enforceihdhl of compulsory service under the Defence Act, and expressed the ojfiiiiol that the people would, ivhen tiled op part unity came, remov’d t a system which was becoming an incubus and i, burden too. , ' '•* The amendment was 1 seconded pre forma, but only Air Hogg*Voted fo;

The Board also adopted a recom mendation by its committee “That ii cases where the number of free place : r? less than the number of applicants oriorifcy of opportunity of admission be determined, not by the date of apolication, but by the results of the inspectors’ examination for proficiency certificates, and that the Inspector General be recommended to amend free place regulation 13 accordingly.'