EDUCATIONAL. THE TEMPERANCE LESSON BOOK.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 331, 5 January 1889, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL. THE TEMPERANCE LESSON BOOK.

Wellington, January 2. Tiik sixth annual meeting of the New Zealard Educational Institute opened to day, Mr Oeo. MacMorran presiding. Delegates were present from Auckland, Wairarapa, Wanganui, Taranaki, Nelson, Marlborough, North Canterbury, Mid-Canterbury, Otago, Waikato. Mr Cowles, of Nelson, gave notice of his intention to move " That the resolution re Dr. Richardson's Temperance Lesaon-book, forwarded by the Auckland branch, be relegated to the branch institutions for their consideration. '" The resolution ot the Auckland branch was as follows : — •' That, in the opinion of this Institute, Dr. llichardson's Temperance Lesson-book and ' The First Steps to Temperance,' contain an amount of controversial matter which renders them unfit for use in the public (schools, and this Institute therefore urges upon the Minister of Education that they should be removed from the list of books authorised to be so used." After the appointment of the usual committees, the Council adjourned until to-morrow.

CiiRiSTCiiURCii, January] 2. The second annual session of the New Zealand Secondary Schools Conference opened in the Canterbury College Hall yestemay. Sixteen members were present. Mr C. F. Bourne, of Auckland, presided, it was resolved that the "Waitaki Girls 1 High School be added to the list of recognised high schools. The Auckland (girls' High School and the Bishop's College (Nelson) were removed from the list. It was resolved that it is desirable that each examination paper in the entrance examination of the University of New Zealand should be approved by at least two examinei's in each subject ; that in the opinion of this Conference the time lias arrived when high school training, followed by pass at matriculation, should be required of every applicant for the position of pupil teacher. During the discussion on the latter motion, Mr Ewan Brown, headmaster of the Christchurch Boys' High School, said the present pupil teacher system was wasteful of braip and tissue, and, no doubt, of money also The condition of pupil teachers in New Zealand was white slaver) .

The Duke of Westminster intends x>a present Turner's picture, " JDunstantro," to the Melbourne Art Gallery.