EDUCATION REPORT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1062, 28 August 1930, Page 9

EDUCATION REPORT

SECONDARY SCHOOLS TO COMBINE IN PROTEST LOOKING TO AUCKLAND The Board of Governors of the Auckland Grammar School discussed at its meeting yesterday afternoon the advisability of sending representatives to a proposed conference of secondary representatives in Wellington to protest against the abolition of secondary school boards as suggested in the Education report issued recently by the Parliamentary Committee. The chairman. Professor Thomas, thought that repealed attacks from various sources would be more effective than one united meeting. The Board of Governors of the Otago Boys’ and Girls’ High Schools had written suggesting that a conference be held on September 3 to discuss fully the recommendations contained in the Parliamentary Committee’s report.

Mr. 11. S. W. King thought that Auckland should be represented at. the conference. Boards in other parts of the Dominion were looking to Auckland to take action as the Auckland Board controlled five big schools and was easily the most influential in the Dominion. It was decided that the chairman, Messrs. A. St. C. Brown and J. Stanton and the secretary attend the conference, if it were called. ANOMALIES IN REPORT

• Earlier in the proceedings of the meeting a letter had been read from the headmaster of the Auckland Grammar School, Mr. H. J. D. Mahon, point*' ing out some of the anomalies in the report and criticising a part of the evidence which had been taken.

Mr. Brown said that in the reporl itself no reference had been made to ihe evidence given by either Mr. Mahon or Professor Thomas, nor apparently had that evidence been appreciated by the committee. “Personally I think the whole scheme had been adopted beforehand,’’ commented Professor Thomas.