EDUCATION BILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3061, 4 December 1908, Page 5

EDUCATION BILL.

CABLE HEWS.

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SECOND CLAUSE CARRIED.

Received December 3, 9.12 p.m. LONDON, December 3. The second clause of the Education Bill was carried in the House of Commons 276 to 66. A LIVELY DEBATE. COMPLAINT BY AN IRISH MEMBER. "THE RUIN OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS." ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S VIEW. A PLAIN AND FORCEFUL PROTEST. FINANCIAL PROVISIONS CRITICISED. Received December 3, 10.10 p.m. LONDON, December 3. There was a lively debate on the Government's resolution authorising the payment of grants for education. Mr J. Redmond, Member for Waterford, complained that the 50s grant meant the ruin of Catholic schools. The Right Hon. A. Lyttelton read an important communication from the Archbishop of Canterbury to Mr Runciman, complaining that the payments on account of transferred voluntary schools was utterly insufficient, involving an annual average deficiency of 14s 6d per child. Regarding contracting-out schoo s, if they were to maintain efficiency without impossible strain on vo'untary subscribers, the grants must be increased by at least Bs, and they must rise automatically year by year. The Archbishop's communication concluded by saying that unless these essential demands were conceded he was forced to the conclusion that the schedule toQk away what the Bill

purported to- give, consequently a settlement was seemingly attainable which could not be carried out. i