TALK TO ROTARIANS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 594, 21 February 1929, Page 8

TALK TO ROTARIANS

EDUCATION DIRECTod STIRS BOARDS ° R AN UNREPORTED ADDRESS Prcjs Association WELLINGTON. To^ av At the last meeting of the w ton Education Board it wa, that the Director of Education B Strons ’ had ~*en an addrsa.' Rotarians at Palmerston North * made remarks detrimental to Uon boards in general, and the ington and Wanganui Boards in cular. ' Mr! -- The board decided to ask Mr Stm to forward an account of his's^ 5 but at to-day’s meeting a replT, received from the director saving th!* he had no inlormation to commuruT to the board.

Characterising the reply as a rets discourteous, Mr. London’ moved that the circumstances less?'’ to the letter should be command to the Minister of Education protest that the action of the he*!? J such an important department*, both unreasonable and discourtenn’ Mr. Blake suggested a remltTL Education Boards’ Conference in*?* of appealing to the Nicholls agreeing as Mr. Stron* T said, had attacked all boards ? This course was adopted,' but v, before there had been some very him speaking through Mr. J. j ciart who was not at the previous meeto!' saying that it was very undignified . enter into a discussion on a that was really one of rumour Mr. T. Forsyth, chairman, said tkit was no rumour, and the remarks Palmerston North were made afc the director had assured himself ththe Press was not present.

Mr. Robertson remarked that he ** afraid the director had allowed hh difference of opinion with the boar with regard to the appointment of MLomas as principal of the Trains College, to affect him, and was no» showing his spleen.

Mr. Forsyth said that Mr. StroLv should he either able to say that he had not made a statement or else fen what he had said.