EDUCATIONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8167, 28 July 1906, Page 2

EDUCATIONAL.

Milt FIIIsSS ASSOCIATION. Weuinoton, July 27. In opening (he Training College for teachers, the Premier, who was received with applause, remarked that in tho Education Act, 1877, provision was made for Training Colleges for teachers, but ho believed that that work was only taken up at Dunedin and Chnstchureh. Unfortunately after some years, times of stre-is came to tho Colony and it was nece. iary to reduce expenditure, and the Training Colleges were the first io suffer. That must not happen in tho future. He expressed surprise that only £5,000 was received from land endowments for primary education last year, and £31,743 for secondary education. Ho thought that instead of one million acres, they should set aside two million, acres for educational purposes if necessary. There, was a revenue of £150,000 a year coming in from Crown leases, from their small grazing runs and pastoral leases, and he said unhesitatingly that they could not use that revenue better than by earmarkiag it for educational purposes.' The annual cost of Training Colleges at tho four centres would be at least L2J.000, but against that they had of course to set cost of tho. education of 17,000 or 18,000 child '.'en, who would be attending the schools attached to the colleges, He thought that as further facilities and inducements were provided, the disproportion in the number of male teachers, as compared wilh female teachers, would be somewhat modified.