THE COLONY’S EDUCATION SYSTEM.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43092, 14 May 1907, Page 4

THE COLONY’S EDUCATION SYSTEM.

Dealing 1 with education in an address to the pupils of the Timarui District. High School, the Acting-Premier (Hon. Hall-Jones) referred to the benefits, conferred on, the people by our primary system, of education, and latterly hy the method by which those who won, scholarships could go through to the. secondary and universitv courses, thus fitting them for the highest positions in- the land. “The boys and .girls of New Zealand,” he said, “as they grow up, will hare to complete with and contend against those whO- are employed in the professions, in commerce, trade and busi-

ness of other 'Countries, and the-" -knew that in Germany, Franca and the Unitied 'States, perhaps eyen more thla-n in thei Old Country itself, there were advantages placed before the youth of hose coun,tries, which, if we- did not, teep abreast of them, would mean hat the youth of New Zealand would ’all behind in the reoc* of life. There■ore,, the past Governments and the Weserit Government of this colony •ealised that it Was necessary that ■very facility should he provided for >ur hoys and girls to fit them for •heir future work in life. They had lotrri their best in providing a sysoml of edulcatdon which he believed rns lenual to any on the face of the •arth. The Acting-Premier paid a , r arm trijbute to the work done by the ate (Mir Sieddon, especially in, the ast few years of his life, in making ■rovisioni for scholarships and free laces in the secondary schools and he .universities. During the current, ear about 5000 pupils had qualified nder the provisions of scholarships nd free places in our secondary chools. He (Mir Hall-Jones) always ooked with respect on the who *orked his way up hy means of cholarships from the -rimaiy school

o the secondarr school, and he had Tow an opportunity of going on to he university.