Education Bill

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 55, 25 July 1914, Page 5

Education Bill

ANOTHER OBNOXIOUS CLAOSE. "WROX;; J\ PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE." By Telegraph—Press Association. Pahiatua, Last Night. The headmaster of the Pahiatua District High School drew the attention of Ins committee to the clause in the new Education Bill that if parents uo not have the retomiiicndaticii of the medical olhcers attended .to they will ,be liable to prosecution. He believed this to be absolutely wrong in principle and practice. If the school committees throughout the country expressed their opinion against the clause, he was sure they would have influence in preventing such a pernicious regulation from getting into the Act The committee decided to forward a letter to the Minister for Education, and also to the member for the district, objecting to the clause complained of. PROTEST PROM OAKURA. I

At a well-attundcd meeting of settlers at Oakura the following resolution was unanimously passed on the motion of Messrs W. Morris (chairman of the local {school Committee) and T. W. Telford: That the settlers of the district emphatically protest against the removal of the Education Board from New Plymouth, for the following reasons—(]) That the district can be much better administered from Few Plymouth, the capital.of the province; (2) that the members of the Education Board are elected from different localities through- ' out the district, and are therefore in a much better position to look after educational matters than would be possible if the proposal of the new Education Bill were given effect to; and (3) that if the boundaries are to be revised, any alteration should be in the direction of m»kmg the districts- of boards more equal m size.

PROTEST FROM STRATFORD. (From our Resident Reporter.) . A* a. large and. enthusiastic meeting in the Council Chambers at Stratford last night, the .following resolutions were carried unanimously:— "That this meeting, wMlc anorovins of the Education Bill as a whole, and we.commg many of its provisions, is strongly against the extinction of the Uiranaki education district and the absorption of the territory in the new district having Wanganui a* its centre. nireh a. step would be, in the opinion of titas meeting, retrograde, alike from a national, provincial, and local point, of view. It would tend to undue centralisation, with neglect of local interests: rt would kill the pride of localities in their educational institutions, and abolfsh a board under which the standard •if education, as judged by the results of the competitive examinations, has risen to a point that is> as high as, or higher than, obtains in larger districts." "Instead of abolishing the Board this meeting fc of opinion that the Tara : naki district should be enlarged to include the whole of the provincial dis(rict and t/lie south-western portion of the Auckland district. This meeting urges that clauses 78 to 85 of the Education Act, 1908, dealing with the Taranaki scholarships, should be re-enacted in the present Act. * >. "This meeting compliments tJiie Minister of Education on the Education Bill as a whole, recognising that if it becomes law the cause of education will be in many respects' materially advanc- J