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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 4, 24 January 1901, Page 15

Thl following item is from an Invercargill contemporary .—. — At yesterday's meeting of the Education Board Mr. Hanan asked if it were true that under the new regulations pupils of private Bchools would be debarred from competing for scholarships. The chairman said it was perfectly true, and Mr. George added that the reason was that aa private schools did not contribute anything to the funds from which the scholarship money was derived their pupils ought not to participate in the benefits conferred by the money. Mr. Hanan a^ked whether it wa< right that the Board should keep pupils who were taught privately out of the benefits of the scholarship*! Mr. George reiterated the principle which had guided the Board's action. There was a State system of education which conferred certim advantages upon thoso who availed themselves of it. It was free to all and its benefits were known to all. If they chose to remain outside, to find their education elsewhere, they must be prepared to take the consequences and forego the benefits which the system had at its disposal. Mr. Hanan was proceeding to question a policy by which the Board compelled those who wished to go elsewhere to attend the State schools, when Mr. Mac Gibbon pointed out that the discussion was informal, and, moreover, that las Mr. Ilanan was striking at the root of a national eystem of education anything he said should be in order and would have to be seriously considered. Mr. Hanan admitted the reasonableness of what Mr. Mac Gibbon had said. He had merely asked a question for information. The answer was news to him and he would now have to consider whether he would proceed further by giving notice of motion or not The matter then dropped.