ADVICE OVERLOOKED?

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 783, 2 October 1929, Page 9

ADVICE OVERLOOKED?

EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL AND MINISTER STATUTORY BODY’S WORK An opinion that recommenda--1 tions by the Council of Education were not receiving serious consideration by the Department of Education was given this morning before the Auckland Education Board. ! Mr. H. S. W. King, who introduced j the question, mentioned the recomI mendations made by the council in | July, 1928, over the establishment of j a technical school at Otabuhu, district I high schools at Papakura and Putaruru, and a grammar school at | Ellerslie. Mr. King asked if an inquiry should not be made in the ' absence of action over the recommendations. Referring to the Minister of Education, the Hon. If. Atmore, Mr. E. C. Banks remarked that "the new Minister last year was running about tue country, when he was wanted in Wellington by members of the council.” The recommendations of the council, although no effect had jet been given to them, still stood. # Mr. T. U. Wells said certain questions were delayed, pending an ani nouncement of the Minister’s policy. “My object in raising the subject was to secure an opinion from mem- ; bers of the board who are also members of the council,” Mr. King said. “I think we should know if the recommendations of the council —which is a statutory body with power to advise—are being heeded. Such a position did pertain until the end of last year.” Mr. A. Burns, chairman of the I board, remarked that the department would not give attention to everything 1 advised by the council. No action was taken by the board. ( A report of the proceedings at th«* June meeting of the council wa» I received.