A National System of Education Promoted in Early Debate
The piece traces a late 19th century push for a universal, free education system from primary to university. It notes Sir Robert Stout supporting the idea, teachers urging early reforms, and criticisms of letting unready students crowd secondary schools. It argues a rational system must be universal, tiered, and accessible to all, regardless of wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middle
Ith
Robert, Stout
E G. Mehaffey
Invercargill
Ashburton High School
Watters
Dunedin
Morrell
Otago
Mdneation
Reform of Elective Land Boards in New Zealand
The article outlines a 1908 draft for elective members on Land Boards in New Zealand. It details that three members would be appointed by the Governor and one elected by Crown land lease owners. Elections begin after January 1908 to fill vacancies, with owner voting rules and a prohibition on General Assembly members serving on boards. The reform is praised as prudent liberalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
McNah
McNab
Commissioner of Crown Lands
Governor-in- Council
General Assembly
Land Board
Assembly
Land Boards
Canterbury and Ashburton politics and notices
A Canterbury Conservative candidate of note may contest Ashburton at the next election after a prior failed bid. The Guardian won’t publish Monday the 16th, Canterbury’s province anniversary. John Studholme of Coldstream plans a March British visit, likely eight months away. He was named diocesan delegate to the England Church Congress 1908. The Premier denies plans to appoint R Slater to the Legislative Council and no new Government appointments are planned. Dunedin reports bakers cutting bread price amid a fall in flour. 4 lb loaf drops from 74d to 6d from Monday. The south express arrived in Ashburton 15 minutes late.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guardian
Province of
Canterbury
John Studholme
Coldstream
Great Britain
Christchurch
Church Congress
England
R. Slater
Legislative Council
Dunedin
New Zealand
Ashburton
Sir Joseph
Seribe
Labour League
Railways
Finance
Don. T. Kennedy Macdonald
M.L.G
South Island
Ashburton News Roundup Highlights Education and Labour Debates
A wide local briefing notes an Ashburton Conciliation Board session on farm labor grievances with farm unions and witnesses ready. Dr Findlay awards High School prizes in Paterson North and calls for wealthy support for education. A new season for Mr Charles Taylor in Rip Van Winkle at Oddfellows Hall is announced. Weather, harvests, and local industry updates follow, including sheep shearing at Chertsey and Labour Ministry movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aslburton
Joseph Ward
Fenortet
Abhboten Technical
Clagges Association
Ab Ashburton
Tnion
Oddfellows Hall
Patnerston North
Dr Findlay
Munnicipal
Charles Taylor
Rip van Winkle
Oddfellows’ Hall
Taylor
Australia
East
Far East
Ella Cartington
Winchmore
Gresling
Tossel Ward
W. Hall-Jones
London
New Zealand
Wellington
Chertsey Saleyards Company
Wells
Laraman
Yardnan
McLaren
Wells & Good
W. Dunstam
Napier to Host New Zealand Swimming Championships
The New Zealand Swimming Association has allotted all championships for the year to Napier after a December notice confirmed the choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napier
Ltte
New Zealand
Premier Wie visits Temuka as Parliament rebuilds loom
The Prime Minister meets a Journal staffer in Temuka to discuss the Dominion fire's aftermath and plans for Wellington. He outlines cabinet duties, potential sites for a new Parliament building, and cautions on funding and timing while weighing alternatives like Government House grounds or a Town Hall site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Béc
Wellington
Dominion
Temuka
Joseph Ward
Ashburton
New Zealand
Stewart Island
Joseph
Christchurch
Taihapi
Wairarapa
Auckland
Parliament House
Te Aro
Newtown
Mount Cook
Government House
Lord Plunket
Lambton Qtay
Government Printing Office
Leugh
Sir Dessol
House of Commons
Conciliation Board Ends Timaru Session in Labour Dispute
Witnesses described grain yields and rising farm costs as two more days of hearings closed at Timaru. Farmers pressed for access to further evidence, while the Board planned meetings in Ashburton Geraldine and Waimate to hear remaining testimony from Canterbury agricultural workers and employers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Studholme
Timaru
Defence Department
Conciliation Board
Duneheon
Ashburton
Labour Journal
Albury
J. McCourt
John Trotter
Fairlie
Mr Jones
Witness Anid
Monty
Iito
Unio
Canterbury
Boyd
Christchurch
Twentyman
Farmers’ Defence Committee
Wilson
Allandale
Geraldine
Waimate
Cowd
Unknown man found dead by own action near Sawson
Palmerston North December 13 an inquest into the unknown man found hanging on Mr Grace's property near Sawson concluded with a verdict of death by own action. The athletic, 28 year old male with a black beard had no letters or money and carried no identification. A photo was taken to aid possible future identification. The body hung from fencing wire attached to a tree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmerston North
Mr . Grace
Sawson
Fire Burns Down North East Valley Factory in Dunedin
December 14 a large one storey wooden building housing Blissard and McVicar, sagh and oor manufacturers, burnt at 10 last night. No water supply hindered brigade. Insurances on the valley fire totalled 600 on Blissard and McVear, with 75 on building, 175 on stock, 150 on machinery, 100 on timber. Union Hat Company insured for 3850 in Atlas Office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunedin
North East Valley
Blissard
McVicar, Sagh and
Oor
Fires Hit Two Schools In Napier
December 14 reports in Napier detail two fires at schools. The Boys High School laundry was damaged with about £100 of linen lost and £150 insured in the Norwich Union. Two hours later Moriart Brothers' school, an old wooden building, burned completely. insurances total £709 for the school and £50 for fittings in the Atlas. Incendiary suspicion rests on both blazes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napier
Norwich Union
Moriat Brothers’ School
Christchurch Pressures Next Parliament Session to Be Held Here
A Christchurch meeting held in response to a mayoral circular urged the Premier to consider relocating the next Parliament session to Christchurch. Supporters argued Canterbury Hall and Provincial Council buildings could host, with Wellington as backup. A resolution instructed representatives to inform the Premier of Christchurch’s strong wish and to offer suitable buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christchurch
Wellington
Canterbury Hall
Provincial Council
Messrs Louisson
Grey
G. W. Russell
Tanner
Wigram
Gapes
Hack Racing Club Receives Proposals Under The Gaming Act
Dec 13 Dargaville telegram from Premier states hack and pony races are horse races within the Act. Stewards may license bookmakers if a totalisator permit exists. without it they may admit or exclude bookmakers under Section 34. J G Ward notes official stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dargaville
Kaihua Hack Racing Club
J. G. Ward
Struggle for Supremacy in Indian National Movement
In Bombay a stormy Medinipur conference deposed Surendanath Bannerjee as head student of the Nationalist community and installed Arabinto Ghose who was recently tried for sedition. R. D. Johnston announces new bicycle stock including Royal Enfield Rudge Whitworth BSA and New Hudson models for buyers to inspect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bombay
Medinipur
Surendanath Bannerjee
Arabinto Ghose
R. D. Johnston
Royal Enfield
Rudge Whitworth
B.S.A
Hudson Bicycles
Burglary at Wellington Bookshop Stolen Goods Value 500 Pounds
Burglars broke into Messry Whitcombe and Tombs bookselling and stationery shop in Wellington on December 14. They ransacked the premises and stole goods valued at £500, finding only money already removed before the closure of the previous day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
Messry Whitcombe and Tombs
Postal Department to Issue Unvarnished Halfpenny Postcards
The Postal Department will issue plain halfpenny postcards from Monday next in Wellington.
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Wellington
Pecember
Lhe
Free scholarships extend to secondary schools and beyond
An education Department report outlines extensive provisions for free tuition and scholarships from primary to university level. It notes two years of free tuition for junior scholarship holders and expanded access through Civil Service and University funds, with dozens of named scholarships across districts and institutions.
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Watters
Ieourton High School
Sulin
Gag Oc
Civil Service Junio
Education Board
Civil Service
Victoria College
Municipalities to provide religious instruction in schools
Paris reports that the National Congress of the French Council of State has ruled municipalities must offer religious instruction to schoolchildren whose parents request it. Britain and France sign mutual assistance pact to curb revenue frauds and aid succession recovery. Floods across England cause widespread damage. Naval expansion urged with two battleships per empire costs. Scarletina serum discovered by Professor Mirppman of Leipzig with promising cures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
National Congress
The
French Council of State
Prance
Britain
London
France
England
Mirppman
Leipsig
The Druce Portland Case Funeral Details
The report notes Mr John Glazier of Croydon said his father's Tottenham Court Road firm supplied a coffin and four coaches for T Druce’s 1864 funeral. Coaches went to Baker Street Bazaar to collect department heads for Highgate Cemetery, with the procession from Drice’s Hendon residence. Counsel for the prosecution said Caldwell’s evidence could no longer be relied upon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Per
Press Association
London
John Glazier
Croydon
Daily News
Tottenham Court Road
T. ©. Druce
Baker Street
Highgate
Manuer
Drice
Hendon
Caldwell
King Edward Pledges Funds for Quebec Centenary Park Plan
Ottawa reports King Edward subscribed 100 guineas for the Loo Grey movement and to aid the purchase of battlefields around Quebec including the plains of Abraham. The aim is to create a public park honoring the September 1769 Wolfe victory and the key Abraham Martin heights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Samuel de Champlains
Quebec
Edward
Loo
Abraham
Wolfe
Canada
Abraham Martin
South Africa Zululand unrest quieted by British moves
Durban reports Colonel McKenzie has seized remaining Zululand positions and is dispatching columns to quell uprisings and reassure loyalists as of December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durban
McKenzie
Zululand
Russian generals reshuffle amid Mukden surrender questions
General Kaulbars is summoned to St Petersburg to explain Mukden surrender while General Rendenkampf succeeds him at Odessa according to dispatches dated December 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Petersburg
Kaulbars
Mukden
Rendenkampf
Odessa
Weekly sale results from Warmers Co operative
A fair attendance at the Warmers Co operative Association weekly sale yielded mixed prices for produce. Potatoes and cabbage plants sold weakly, wheat and oats per sack quoted, beef joints priced per pound, pigs and porkers sold at various shillings, poultry fowls priced per bird.
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Hea Mitchell
Turner
Uy Res
Ta Ft
A. & &. Terris
Tancred Street
N.Z. Farmers’ Co-operative Association of Canterbury, Ltd
Ashburton Drancis
D. D. Lindsay
Zouch
D. Lindlessay
Lindsay
D. Lindsay
Arthur L. Zouch
A. L. Zouch
Alford
Forest Road
W. Arie
Comprisig
Ferrinan
H. Gresham
Burnett Street
Cameron Street
West
J. E. Winsloe & Co., Land, Estate and General Agents
Burnett Streat
J. E. Winsloe and CO
Hershburton Guardian
Robert B. Bhul
Ashburisa
Veritas
Hislop
C. €. Bowen
North Island
Thames High Reheel
Dean
Ashbirton
Labour
J. A. Millar
R. McNab
Messrs
Flemington
Willowby
Edwin
Salvation Army
Knight
Ward
Baltic Dream Separators
Baltic
MacEwan and Coy., Ltd
Sele
Sir Joseph Ward
Sweden
Waimakariri
Conciniation Board
Affairs IN India
la Latest
Home and Foreign
United Presa Association
Per Electric Telegraph
Enerarid
Manla
Stead
Leviews
South Africa
Russia
Armers
Co-Operative Association
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