THE EDUCATION COMMISSION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 51, 18 July 1912, Page 5

THE EDUCATION COMMISSION

TEMPERANCE TEACHING. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. The Rev. J. Dawson, secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, giving evidence before the Education Commission, said that the Alliance urged the necessity of compulsory scientific instruction in public schools regarding the effects of alcohol. If the truth about the taking of alcohol were taught ofiicially and systematically, only good would result. Temperance wall sheets alone did not meet the case.

! MR. HOGBEN'S SUGGESTIONS. Wellington, Last Night. Mr. Tlogben, Inspector-General of , Schools, reviewed before the Education | Commission some suggestions which had j been put forward, lie said that the j community of interest would be saerij ficed by dividing education districts into j four. It would be a species of eentralisa- ' tion with all the attendant evils of un--1 due centralisation. A proper division could best be made in connection with a general scheme of local government, under which education expenditure could be charged to local rates. Assuming that education would come under the local government scheme, he made the following suggestions:—Tire present education districts, boards and school committees to be abolished, with the reservation that he had some doubts on the question of committees; non-education districts to be coterminous with new counties; ' an education board to be constituted in each education district as follows: Six members chosen by the county council from amongst its own members, two members elected by primary teachers of the public primary schools in the county, two members elected by all other 'certificated teachers employed for not less than twenty hours a week, one member to be appointed by the Professorial Board of the University College, to be appointed annually, half, of the members before mentioned to retire each 1 year, the council to fill vacancies but not from its own members if the bodies named failed to elect within sixty days.