THE EDUCATION BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8143, 28 June 1906, Page 2

THE EDUCATION BILL.

THE DEBATE ON CLAUSE 4 ■. London, June 36. A conference of N onoonfornisti bu almost unanimously urged the •' lrawal of clause four of the Educa- ' tion Bill. The Rev. Hirst Hallowetj mid the Government should reconsider the quostion and produoe a bettor bill. ' -,l* A debate is proceeding in the Uoum of Commons on Mr Evelyn Cecil'* intendment to make clause four of tht Education Bill mandatory. Mr Birrell said the proposed clause was an excresence on the Bill. Tfyia amendment was an exception grafted: on an exception. He predicted that the loeal authorities would prove m» sonable in most oases. Messrs Paul ( * Macnamara, and Belloc, of the Nationalist Party, preferred Mr Cecil'l vjj amendment, ' • Mr Chamberlain said the Bill **» Sg drawn on wrong lines, and waa imendable. The logical seqnoneo Vlr Cecil's amendment wonld beNro assimilation of country and urban schools. What would passive resisteri then say P ' " * «

CLAUSE FOUE NOt TO BE MANDATORY. Received 27,10,86 p.m. London, Jane 27. Mr Evelyn Cecil's amendment wm negatived by 310 to 234, amidst loud Opposition cheers, this being the lowest Ministerial majority on any important division this session The minority consisted of the Unionists, 68 Nationalists, 20 Independent Libor and 27 Liberals, The majority ineluded two Catholics, Colonel Herbert and C. O'Donnell