THE EDUCATION BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81895, 28 November 1906, Page 3

THE EDUCATION BILL.

THE GOVERNMENT'S DETERMINATION. WHOLE BILL OR NOTHING.

Received 27th, 9.35 p.m. London, November 27. Mr McKenna, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, speaking at Blaeuavon, said unless the House of Lords rupented, the Government null not accept a mangled Education Bill. The Government would have the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill. SPEECH BV ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. Received 27th, 11.16 p.m. London, November 27. The Archbishop of Canterbury, replying to the National Society's deputation, who urged the Lords to adhere to their amendments, said he would endeavour to see if a settlement were reached that it would be what they Vere entitled in common decency to expect. Unless teachers were allowed to give denominational instruction (the nominal offer of facilities embodied in the Government's Bill being practically worthless In urban areas), he had sufficient confidence in the honesty and reasonableness of the supporters of the Bill to believe the latter would -ee the hollowness of the proposed concessions and if they went forward, and it was now a large 'if," they were bound to make taeir offer real. No more momentous matter had ever been cea.t with in our time.