The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1915. THE EDUCATION DISTRICTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 70, 22 November 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1915. THE EDUCATION DISTRICTS.

r J he Council of Education, to whom the final adjustment of the Education District boundaries was left, lias completed a very difficult task about as satisfactorily as possible, though naturally under whatever decision arrived at, there would be some conflict with local interests, especially in cases where the wisdom of the Commissioners decided that certain localities should be transferred from a‘ district under which it had previously worked to another district, of which it bad not the same knowledge. Very great care and consideration appears to have been given to the adjusting of boundaries, and if, at the first, some small inequalities appear* to exist, these will soon rub down. Under the Act of last session the nine Education Districts of the Dominion are: Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, Taranaki, Wanganui, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, Otago and Southland, and as most of our readers are aware, it was largely due to the efforts made' by Messrs Hine and Okey. M.P.’s., who were able to present a very strong case, that Taranaki retained its individuality. . The Taranaki Education Board was able to bring forward sound evidence in support of the Taranaki Education District being retained, and yeoman service was rendered by the Chairman of the Board (Mr H. Trimble), and by Mr Robert Masters, one of the Stratford representatives, who most ably supported Mr Trimble in his mission to Wellington when the Commission was in sitting to take evidence. So far as the new Taranaki District , is concerned, the inclusion of the ten counties which

make up the province, fixes the boundaries equitably and ideally from all reasonable points of view, and makes Hie District compact and! workable. With a really good High School in the most central position of the Education District and the extension of the facilities for instruction in agriculture which it is hoped may be the outcome of the representations made to the Hon. .Mr Hunan when he was in Stratford recently, educational interests throughout the Province should be much benetitted, and looked at broadly, the changes recently brought about must be decidedly advantageous to educational interests in Taranaki ns a whole.