AN EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9118, 18 June 1908, Page 4

AN EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

The Wairarapa School Committees' Association had before it yesterday the list of resolutions passed a fortnight ago by the Country Schools' Association, a South Island organisation of a similar nature to the Wairarapa body. The resolutions to which we have previously referred, were considered of such an important character that it was resolve! to refer them to the various school committees affiliated to the Wairarapa Association, with a view of their being; given due consideration. The Wairarapa Association also decided to invite the various school committees to send delegates to an education conference, which it is proposed to hold in Masterton at an early date. The proposition is undoubtedly a gool one, and the deliberations of such a conference would be of great importance. Masterton itself is blossoming' into an education centre of no mean importance, while there are other centres such as Carttrton, Greytown, Eketahuna and Pahiarua, where no doubt it is often felt by the committees in control that a better managed system of education administration might easily be accomplisheJ if systematic effort were made to secure reform. No doubt there are schools which have felt the pinch oC the Education Board's poverty, or rather the elftict of its dilatorinc33, quits as much as Masterton, where the scholars have been injudiciously crammed into rooms and desks far too small Through the lack of proper housing accommodation. There are a hundred and one points of a diversified na h ura which a country Education Conference could discuss with obvious advantage. It is earnestly to be hoped that the proposed conference will eventuate, and will be well attended.