, 1911-09-27

noon.
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Yesterday morning. At Est. Sally's Fancy
3 lines were meas red on Monday morning
and ( of 4 line yesterday morning.
Our little sheet has been mostly taken upof
late with Legislative matters, so ne Of them how
before the Colonial Council, and among these
the most lengthy and the most important is
the proposed new School Ordinance. The
Draft has now been entirely pub ished, as
well as the remarks accompanying it, and
the speech Of the School Direc or as a mem
Der of the Council Introducing the measure,
aud we have no intention to follow here
with amy lengthy comments. We susp ct
indeed that very few Of our readers have
followed up the matter, although it effects
very many of them mostly they have pre-
ferred no doubt to leave it to the Councils
Committee to point ont anything that needs
amendment, ard the Committee has done SO.
their Report having been presented, though
not yet published.
The new Ordinance, though based on the
old, contains 50 many important alterations
and additions that it cannot be called a re-
yised edition OF the Old one, many indeed Of
its provisions being entirel, new. Some may
be called Improvements on the Old rules,
such as that which aims at securing pune
tuaIity by tining the parents or guardians Of
late corners as though they were absentees,
the old regulations only allow 2 this to be-
done When the pupil was one hour or more
behind time, or that which provides that
employer transgressing the ordinance must
be reported by the School Board, while
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The Committee amendments were most
" corrections or changes in the wording,
but there were a few Of greater Importance.
These were directed cine fly to ameliorating
the position of the existing private schools
as arranged in the Draft, which provided
that they could be continued for two years
from the coming into force of the Ordinance,
"by which time those schools whose work it
is wished to continue must send in to the
School Board an application to that effect
drawn up in accordance with SAC.
The Committee proposed that this should
be struck out and be replaced by the
following The Managers of private
schools, existing now, and established
with the permission Of the School Board,
have the right to continue their work IL the
rooms at present used for teaching, if these
are 70 be considered as satisfactory, without
SendInS to the SchOOl Board an appHcdllOu
drawn up in accordance with s 46, but also
these schools are subject to the provisions
of this Ordinance, concerning he admission
and dismissal Of pupils, the instruction, and
the examinations, and concerning the send
ing in of reports to the Board"
Another change proposed is that the
grants to the existing Roman Catholic
schools should be provided for in the Ordi-
nance, but with an amount to be fixed on
the yearly budgets after the representation
Of the School Board and "as long as their
standard is considered satisfactory"
70 this comes a further paragraph concerning
subsidies to private schools, as follows TO
the private schools, which not in other ways
are supported by the community, is to be
granted a yearly subsidy, which may not
exceed, on the whole, 1900 francs and on
the average Is frcs. per pupil in these
schools, and this subsidy is to be divided
among these schools according to their stan
dard and number of pupils"
We will mention lastly the following
a~mendment The first three lines of s 62