WITHIN THE DOMINION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 218, 2 June 1915, Page 8

WITHIN THE DOMINION.

REFRIGERATED SPACE.

.SOUTHLAND’S COMPLAINT,

INVERCARGILL, May 31

Farmers in Southland were consid.erurhly alarmed .on -Saturday when it was realised that only one steamer will load meat at the Bluff .in June —some few thousand carcases, not enough to relieve the works for a week. Feed is becoming scarce, and the consequences will undoubtedly be most serious unless space for at least another hundred thousand carcases is allotted for June and early July shipments. There is talk-of a deputation going to Wellington to lay the position before tire Shipping Committee. There is a feeling here that at • the last' 'sitting of the committee th e claims of Southland have been most unfairly dealt •with.

EDUCATION BOUNDARIES COMMISSION.

WELLINGTON, May 31. The Education Boundaries Commission sat .at Wellington to-day. The Hon. J. G. W. .Aitken, chairman; iof the Education Board, said/ his Board considered that Cook Strait inteaqiosed a .natural barrier to administrative union with Nelson and Marlborough of such a nature ■ that the strait should continue to form the southern boundary of the district. The Board ivas w r ell aware that, subject to administrative convenience, a larger area was -more economically and more efficiently managed -by one than by several bodies, hut increase of ..area should certainly he determined hy .-considerations of administraive efficiency, including fair opportunity for promotion, which, of course, w r as an important factor of efficiency, as provision was made hi th e Education Act .of 1914 for the immediate creation of a Dominion grading of teachers. The argument in favour ©f an even distribution of the higher positions in the service among the different districts had in fact lost much in force since the 1912 Commission reported. “Regarding the re-arrangement of districts in the North Island,” said Mr Aitkon, “my Board is not keenly desirous of increased territory. If, howeyer, it seems probable a redaction in the number of the North Island Boards is made, my Board ventures to suggest a reasonable redistribution of territory appears to be (a) the union of Wanganui and Taranaki; (b) an extension of Hawke’s Bay by transfer from Auckland of a part of the country north of the Bay of Plenty, (This would permit of an expansion of the “Wellington district northwards, say jover two counties to the west and two to the east of the range. This could be administered from Wellington with ease.)

Mi- T. R. Fleming, chief Inspector, I said-that the Dominion grading schem e of certificated teachers to be brought into force under the Act would to a largo extent determine the Boards in relation &o th e appointments of teachers. Administrative convenience and efficiency -must be considered when the boundaries \wer e being formed. It did Tixot so ranch where the t eachow were employed—his grading would giv/f him due consideration when applying for other 'petitions. It was not necessary to ha-v.v a fair proportion of goo\l schools in a district to en--6ur 0 good appointments for a Board’s teachers.