Debate on The Technical Colleges (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1958 · col. 14453

The Speaker: The Order of the Day is the third reading of the Bill. The Minister has the floor.

Arno Krerberg (Minister of Education): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. The Bill provides for the schools what the last Bill did not. The textbooks are the Ministry's and remain so. The Bill provides as follows. Applies to children between 7 and 16. I ask the House to pass it.

Roland Schall (The Osmoor; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, The Union has no quarrel with the purpose of the Bill; its quarrel is with the fee, and with the officer who will collect it. The schools will do what the Bill says, as they do what every Bill says, and the children will not notice. The Osmoor has had a hard year. I say that not against the Bill but so that the Minister remembers it when the fees are fixed. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [Interruption.]

Felix Brenn (Kesselhöh; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, The Front supports the Bill where it helps the families of the Line and opposes it where it charges them. The schools will do what the Bill says, as they do what every Bill says, and the children will not notice. In Kesselhöh, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. I shall vote against the Bill.

Sigmund Brenn (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Speaker, I speak for the farms. A Bill that does not touch the farms is a Bill I can vote for with an easy mind; a Bill that does had better say so. I sit for The Sudmark. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. I am for the schoolmasters, who are underpaid, and for the Bill, which does not pay them. The material provision is this: Applies to children between 7 and 16. I ask the House to note it. I shall vote against the Bill. [Shame.]

Klaus Marrow (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, The land pays for everything in the end. The Reed Party will vote as the land would vote if it could. The schools will do what the Bill says, as they do what every Bill says, and the children will not notice. The members for The Sudmark have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated.

The Minister replied briefly. The fee was as printed; the officer was as printed; the House had the Bill and could read it.

The Speaker: The question is that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. As many as are of that opinion say Aye. [Ayes.] Of the contrary, No. [Noes.] A division was claimed.

The tellers reported the numbers to the Chair. The Speaker declared the Bill passed.

The remaining Orders of the Day were deferred and the House rose.