POWERS OF COMMITTEES.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1916, Page 3

POWERS OF COMMITTEES.

THE CLOSING OF SCHOOLS. The Oakura and Normanby School Committees wrote to the Taranaki Education Board on Wednesday, protesting against the action of the Board in demanding that school committees should communicate with the secretary of the Board before closing the schools on account of infectious diseases, and asked that the Board reconsider its action. The chairman (Mr. R. Masters) moved. and Mr. E. Dixon seconded—"That the receipt of the letters be acknowledged." The Rev. A. B. Chappell said the position was being reconsidered in the revised regulations. The letter from the Normanby Committee showed that there had beeji some misapprehension as to the Board's intention and as to the committees' powers. Mr. Dixon: The Board is not going back on its decision. If the committees do not carry out the Board's instructions I would go so far as to s»y they should resign. Mr. S. G. Smith mentioned that lie had met a number of members of country school committees, all of whom had done good work on behalf of education in past years, and they did not at all take kindly to the Board's attoitudle. Many of tho committees were miles away from a telephone, and it was a most .difficult thing to comply with the instructions issued. Some of those the speaker had conversed with had intimated that they would resign unless the Board took up a less arbitrary at- I titude. i I The motion was carried Mr. Smith dissenting.