It would be worth a trial, and perhaps some member (Mr M. W. Green perhaps) will introduce an 4ct next session, embodying the principle in its pro visions. By all means let us pander to*the popular taste. Anyhow, one fact has been incontestably proved during the past year, and that is that the majority of parents will not Bend their children to school the required time if they can help it, anil many will not send them at all. They don't care a rap for the Committee, or its resolutions, and the sooner the new Committee realise this fact the better. Why have successive Committees persisted in following out such a half-hearted policy as has been the rule more than the exception for years past? We believe a motion was passed last year thai the compulsory-attendance clauses of the Act should be enforced, but, so far as we know, no step in that direction has yet been taken. We trust the new Committee will take a firm and determined stand upon this question, and rigidly enforce each and every clause of the Act. We ask that this shall be done in the interests of the children themselves. They may not now appreciate this delicate attention to their interests at the hands of the Committee, but in years to come, when they have attained manhood and are in business, they will acknowledge that the step was a wise one. Very few people seem to know that there is in existence an Act which many of them are in the babit of breaking almost daily. 