Educational Administration.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7883, 27 July 1905, Page 2

Educational Administration.

AN UNFOUNDED ACCUSATION. Reports appeared in the press on July 5, substantiated in "Handard," of a speech by Mr J. E, Thompson, M.H.R., in which lie said thai the Premier, when down South, had "made an attack upon tiic Boards of Education, principally on the ground so far as his reading showed him, that two Boards had been guilty o! maladministration, the Boards in cfuestioii being the Wellington and Taranaki Education Boards." A further perusal of "Hansard" shows that the Wellington Board was charged with transferring £13,000 required for primary education to the purposes of technical education, and MiThompson went on to say : "It was wrong -that the Premier should saddle on the shoulders of eleven Education Boards the maladministration of two." At -the Taranaki Education BoAd meeting on Wednesday it was pointed out that the condensed report which appeared in the Wellington Post conveyed the impression that this Board fed acted similarly, to the Wellington Board. A letter drafted by tho Chairman (Mr J. Wade) is- to be -forwarded to the Premier, stating that the Board is lu Hy aware that he did not charge the Taranaki Education Board with diverting to technical education moneys that should 1 have-been otherwise spent, nor has the Board any, reason to believe that, as stated in the House by Mr Thompson, he (Mr Seddon) charged this Board with maladministration, nor is th-c Board aware of any grounds whatever for such a- charge being made. At the same time the Board points out that in tile-eyes of the Legislature, and pmtaWy the eyes of the public, the Taranaki Board is coupled with another Board in a charge of malad-itm-nistration, and asks tile Premier to remove the stigma which erroneously rests upon the Board. In discussion Mr Mackay expressed uq«iTm > \i!' * t,his Board was cmi " /£ *< < 6 Aucklal "i Board wlwn the statement was originally made.