EDUCATION MATTERS.
NON-CONFORMIST GRIEVANCES. Received November 5, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, November 4, ! The National Council of Free j Churches, in a letter to the Prime Minister (Mr Asquith) expressed it- ; self as disheartened and bitterly disI appointed over the education question, and asked for an assurance of his intention in the present or the next Parliament, if he returned to power, to carry the matter with a yet more determined effort to [a decisive conclusion, at any sacrifice of polii ical convenience. iVlr Asquith replied in the most sympathetic terms, He blamed the House of Lords for its action in the first session of the present Parliament, and pronounced himself emphatically against allowing the present injustices, and the Mmitatons for absence of popular control, to continue to deface the educational system.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9642, 6 November 1909, Page 5
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131EDUCATION MATTERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9642, 6 November 1909, Page 5
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