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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 14, 1941.

BILL TO SOLVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS' WAR PROBLEMS

(By A Political Correspondent)

Parliament is shortly to debate the war-time VATICAN problem of the public schools. A Government bill to help them overcome war difficulties has been presented to the House of Lords by the Lord Chan-

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cellor, Viscount Simon. Framed in consultation JAMMED

with the schools, it gives greater freedom in the use of trust funds.

Meanwhile the governing bodies of the public schools are discuss ing the post-war situation and whether application should be made to the Board of Education for inclusion in the Government's suspend general scheme to remodel sec- funds. ondary education after the win

BROADCASTING AT SLOW

SPEED A MES-

Order in Council to apply during the war the income or capital of DICTATION any endowments for purpose other | SAGE ADDRESSED TO A MAN than those for which they may

IN FRANCE WHOSE PARENTS now be applied and to reduce or

payments in sinking ARE IN PORTUGAL, THE VATI- CAN RADIO ANNOUNCER SAID: The Government

given The Joint Standing Comm.tee power by Order in Counci¡ upon of the Headmasters' Conferruce, application from a governing body representing governmis and heal to make such provision as appears masters, will meet at the end of to be necessary to secure economy the present term to discuss the

or efficiency In the carrying on whole matter.

of the work of the school under war conditions.

Under the

bill governing bodies would be empowered by

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"We beg our listeners to excure us for speaking so slowly and con- tinually repeating words, but for several weeks now Vatican Radio has been Jummed by an unknown

SOURCE.

The bill, which is retrospective, called The Puble and Other

*We have never broadcast any. Schools (War Conditions) Bill thing not in accordance, with the affects any school to which the

laws of nature and of God, and no Public Schools Acts of 1868 and reports of which we had not pre- 1873 apply, any administered by a

virsly obtained irrefutab e proof. body

under Roval mcorporated Charter or any ver which the

this is a "We conclude that Board of Education has powers

mattoeus re by certain people who under the Endowed Schools Art

are afraid of the truth being The the Charitable Trusts, Act It heard the work of Powers of a abur applies to certain Scottish lying propaganda, that shun the public schools.

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Reforms in Army ad-■ ministration, designed to cut down the red tape of which Major R. H. Turton, M.P. for Thirsk and Mal- ton, complained to the House of Commons are al- ready on the way.

These

are

mainly reforms of office procedure, Others on the lines of decentralisation will prob- ably follow from an experiment now being curried Northern Command.

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Major Turton said in his speech The amount of paper. of time and of man-power that are wasted Bl me with tremendous alarm stated that correspondence had gone on for seven months about a postal order for £1 11s, and that a lorry-dover's clain. following in July, had still not been settled. "Every bit of Anonmal admin se trabon has to go up to the Wat Office," he sand. "I used to trua fat more financial responsbihty in peace-tune to my arm banditf than could be entrusted to my hody Jess them a con- commander in the British Army

Six Months At Work

For six months a committee ot experts has been working to smooth out those entanglements in Army business methods which give rise to such complaints.

Their work has taken them into departments of the War Offer and uut into the Commands. They have a free hand to carry out any investigations they think neces-

sary.

They have studied the Army's complex usages of formis and re- turns and the system which re- quires NO much "reference 10 higher authority." Certain in- ternal changes have already beer made on their recommendations and others will follow shortly.

The Northern Command experi- ment is meant to go farther and to give greater independence the command in administration matters.

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An authority said "The com- mittee has been very busy, and it has made a number of recom- mendations, severnl of which have been put into effect.

"It is trying to cut down the paper work and the reference of matters from one person to an- other. In doing so it hus, of course, to think of the timing of any changes, because they must not be allowed to cause dislocation or in- terruption of the Army's work."

The committee was appointed by Mr. Anthony Eden, when he was War Secretary. It has seven members, thrée of them business 'men. They · are "Sir James Grigg, Permanent Under-Secretary for War, who is chairman, Sir Percy Bates, Mr. G. W. Dunkley, Lt- Gen. Sir Robert Haining, Mr. R. J. Sinclair, Gen;-Sir Walter Ven- ning and Lt-Gen. H. C......... B. Wemyss.

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