EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14495, 5 January 1918, Page 7

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

(P«r Press Association.} WELLINGTON, this day. .Th© Educational Institute Conference decided: that a. paid seoretary should be appointed. ■■" Remits to the following effect wore carried : That it is improper for Ihe senior inspector of a district to 'be a member of a grading of teachers' Appeal Court, seeing that nis grading is being appealed against : that some inspectors be women; that the Institute view ad with grave concern the immoral influence of •man— picture films shown, and urged the Government to set up a more vigorous* censorship. . The executive reported' that it hid correspondence before it showing that certain boards on several occasions disregarded the provisions of the Act m the matter of the appointments it recommended, A strong protest should be made against fche action oi the boards m defying; the provisions of the Act ; that the Minister be strongly urged to have sub-section 7, section 71, of the Act repealed. > Officers were elected as follows : President, Mr A. E. Burns; vice-president, Mr C. 'R. Munro; secretary, Mr H. A. Parkman; treasurer, Mr J. E. Purchase; executive, Mr W. H. i\ewton (North Island): Miss N. E. Cbad (Wellington .Metropolitan), Messrs F. T. Evans (South Island), 0. A. Davis (locomotive), D: Wilson, P. Roach (maintenance), J' W. Elliott, F. Egleton (workshops). J. W. Toomey, and W. Sullivan.