DEPARTMENTAL DILATORINESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 20 March 1902, Page 2

DEPARTMENTAL DILATORINESS.

OTAGO EDUCATION BOARD'S OOM< PLAINT. PBB PBBSB ASBOOIATIOH. Dunbdik, March 19. At the E.iucation Board to-day, com- ■ plaint was mode of alleged undue delays on tbe pars of the Department of Education in replying to communication'* fiom th't Board, aud it wm resolved to respectfully draw the attention of the Minister tn the mat ter; and also to ask for a definite reply »g to when the railway parses promised in September w l 1 be nvailahle for children attending schools. It was stated further tbut no of an v kind had b en received to the B >ai d'a request made a month ago for an > fficittl i< quiry into charges made in collection wi'h an out'retk ef tnbe'culosis «tt Kurow school. The Board had anotler tilt at the department later, when a communication was received that c rtain documents bad bsen sent cut to teachers. - Members ratde it that the secretary of tbe Education Department should be made to know that tbe teachers of Otago district w»re under the jurisdiction of the Board, and that future communications mus r be sent through the Board. The chairman instanced, as a» result of centralisation of eiucation I usiws-', that the Board had advertised for teachers for twelve schools in outlying distrusts, but had failed to get a single application owing to the small salaries offered.