EDUCATION BOUNDARIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 273, 28 April 1915, Page 4

EDUCATION BOUNDARIES.

PRELIMINARY MEETING'. By Telegraph.— Press Association, mi r , .. Wellington, April 27. _ lno education Boundaries Commission, set up to inquire and recommend the constitution of the new education districts met here to day. The personnel is: Messrs A. I). Thomson, Assistant Commissioner (chairman) , H°g^ on » J- Strauchan, ami D. I etrie. rim meeting was held in camera, and the Minister for Education conferred with the members. It was decided to begin taking evidence in the houth island, and the Commission will leave to-morrow evening for Invercargill. Evidence will be taken there on Friday, and at Dunedin on Monday. These are the only dates definitely fixed, but tlio Commission will n 0 from Dunedin to Timarn, then to Christchurcli, and afterwards to West land and Wellington. It was decided that tlie psess bo admitted to the sittings, at which evidence is to be taken. It was also decided that the evidence taken by the Education Commission in 11)12, and by the Parliamentary Education Committee last year relative to boundaries, should bo taken as evidence for purposes of the present Commission.

ACTION AT TIMARU. Timnvu, Last Night. Tlie householders' meetings 011 Monilav nt most places passed resolutionß protesting against abolition of the South Canterbury education district. .Waiinate suggested enlarging the dis« trii't by adding Asliburton County.