THE EDUCATION BILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8122, 19 April 1906, Page 5

THE EDUCATION BILL.

CONFERENCE OP SCHOOL TEACHERS.

Received April 18, 9.4 a.m. JL.ONDON, April 17. Two thousand delegates, representing 57,000 National Union school teachers, are holding a conference at Scarborough, in Yorkshire. Mr Sykes, the president, in hia opening address, expressed the liveliest satisfaction at the promised abolition ot religious tests for teachers, and believed the parents were satisfied with the Government's retention of the Gowper-Tecaple clause in regard to teachings. (Clause 14 of the Education Act of 1870, known as the "CowperTemple clause," after ita proposer, enacts that in any ocbool provided by a schooi board, no religious catechism, or religious formulary which is distinctive of any particular denomination, shall be taught. In the great majority of the public elementary schools of England scriptural teaching is given, but it is undertood that controversial points on which the several churches differ are to be excluded).

DR. CLIFFORD ON THE BILL.

Received April 18, 10.50 p.m. LONDON, April 18.

Dr. Clifford, interviewed, states that between 1833 and 1901 ,tho sum of £90,000,000 had been spent out of rates for education in church schools. The Uduoation Bill treated the Anglicans and Romanists too generously.

CONDEMNED BY THE INDEPEN DENT LABOUR CONFERENCE.

Keceived April 18, 10 p.m. LONDON. April 18.

The Independent Labour Conference has condemned the Education Bill on v tbe ground that it does not .provide for secular education,

GABLE NEWS.

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