EDUCATION BOARDS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 13, 15 January 1918, Page 5

EDUCATION BOARDS.

FLEA ttiH ABOLITION. TEACHERS' COXFBPENCE BESOLUTIOIC ~ . AUCKLAND BOARD'S WORK UPHELD Amongst the many resolutions passed at the Teachers' Conference in Wellington recently was one embodying a recommendation urging that in the interests of education, education boards should be polished. interviewed on the subject, Mr. J. D. IllcKenzie, chairman fii the Auckland Education Board, said hS knew of no I reasonable ground, sd Jar aa the AuckI land Education Board was concetnned, j why the spirit of the resolution should ibe "given effect to. He expressed the i opinion that the resolution had its : origin in' the action of Mr. Pirani, of the Wanganui Education Board, and other ! Boards, refusing to recognise the ordini ary scheme of promotion for teachers. | j While Education Boards may not j ! always do "the wise thing." he said, I i they generally do their best to help i forward the cause of education, and accordinfriy he knew of no good reaeon why education board* should be done away with- The Auckland Board had always fairly met reasonable requests I from* the Xew Zealand Teachers' Educational Institute. They had had no 1 quarrel with them, and as far as he was j aware, the Institute likewise had not quarrelled with the Board. In conclusion he gave it ac his own Impression that teachers generally are somewhat impracticable in their demands.