EDUCATIONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1820, 28 July 1906, Page 2

EDUCATIONAL.

PRESS ASSOCIATION Wellington, last night. In opening the training college for teachers, the Premier, who was reoeived with applause, remarked that in the Education Act of 1877 provision was made for training colleges for teachers, but he - believed that that work was only taken up at Dunedin .and Ohrietohuroh. Unforinnately, after some years, times of stress came to tbe colony pit was necessary to reduce the expenditure, aud tbe training colleges were first to suffer. That must r not happen in the future. He expressed surprise that only £50,000 had been received fcom land endowments for primary education last year, and £31,743 for secondary education. He thought that instead of a million acres they should set aside two million aores for educational purposes if neoesßary, There wes a revenue of £150,000 a year ooming In from Grown leases from their small grazing runs and pastoral leases, and be said unhesitatingly that they oould not use that revenue better than by ear-marking it for.educa* - tional purposes. Th 9 annual cost of training colleges in the four centres would be at least £22,000, but againat that they ' bad of course to set the cOBt of education . V of 17,000 or 18,000 ohildren, who wouldbe attending schools attaobed to oolleges. ■ He thought that as farther facilities and inducements were provided the disproportion in the number of male teachers as compered with female teachers would, be 1 '- somewhat modified.