EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1920, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

TRAINING OF THE YOUNG. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The New Zealand Educational Institute adopted the following remits introduced by the executive:—(a) That the New Zealand Educational Institute acknowledges and appreciates the advance registered by the temporary legislation of 1919, especially as it is accompanied with an assurance of further reforms next year. It re-asserts tin. necessity for extending the education of the youth of the Dominion to provide the fullest training of which an individual is capable, and for controlling by regulation the hours of work and wages of school children before and after school. It re-affirms its conviction that a national system of education can-be best directed by "a National Education Board,, and can be best administered by local education authorities, and it directs the executive to carry on it-j work of propaganda with all the energy and resources at the command of the Institute.

(b) That the Institute demands that •an; end- be put. without further delay to ! the intolerable injustice perpetuated by some of the Education Boards in the appointment of teachers in a manner not in accordance with the provisions of the Act. An amendment to omit the reference to a National Education Board was defeated. TO ELEVATE PICTURES. There was a Ibiig disciisaion on a rimh to urge the Government to purify and elevate the standard of moving picture enterfeinm'ehts. Eventually Miss Coad, Messrs. Webb, Garry, Wilson and MeNa'ughton were appointed a Committee to investigate the problem and report to the Executive not later than the end of April.