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Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1918, Page 5

I An Auckland delegate moved at the .Education Institute Conference tha other day ''that tho Education Department be urged to amend tlio regulations ,I'e travelling, in the direction of providing for payment for travelling of children who ride to school." He said that some children attending his school tra> veiled sixteen milef'a day—eight miles to school and eight miles back—live days a week, or eighty miles a week in all. Some families had three children travelling that distance in all weathers, and to struggling farmers that meant a big item for horse-feed alone. Another delegate suggested thai the remit should: 1 apply to bicycles as well as to-horses. Tho mover agreed, subject, to a threemile limit being adopted. A Taranaki delegate moved, that the remit should include also proficiency certificateholders travelling three miles or more to a district high school. The charge for storing a bicycle -at a railway station was, he stated, 15s Gd a quarter, while for putting up a horse the charge was Is a day, or £lO a year. The charge for coaching was also about 1ti day. This amendment was accepted; and the remit, as amended, was carried "nem con." A delegate stated, amid laughter, that if payment was made for each horse going to school the number of horses that went ti school Would "btb greatly, increased. "