THE GOVERNMENT AND EDUCATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2726, 3 February 1910, Page 5

THE GOVERNMENT AND EDUCATION.

VIGOROUS PROTESTS FROM THE

BOARDS

[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Feb. 2. At the Education Board to-day, the protest of the Otago Board, regretting that provision was not made for the representation of Education Boards by their own members at the forthcoming general education conference to be held in Wellington, was supported. The chairman said that a great injustice had _ been done to the Boards of the Dominion in not inviting them CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 2. The North Canterbury Education Board to-day endorsed the Otago Board’s resolution regretting that the. Department has ignored the Boards in calling the conference. It was decided to request the Minister to call an educational conference to be held at Wellington, each Board to send two delegates and to remit the subjects it proposed for discussion to the secretary of the North Canterbury Education Board.

The proposed reduction by the Education Department, of the. building grants allowed to different Education Boards came in for some criticism. The chairman moved, and it was agreed, “That this Board strongly protests against the serious reductions that have been made in the grant this year, especially as tile reduction was made without notice.”