"WHERE AM I GOING?"

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 30, 5 February 1925, Page 4

"WHERE AM I GOING?"

TEACHERS' ETJCKY BAG. A SECOND DIP. "Why cannot the committee let ns know uur fates':" was tile exclamation of a student when reading over the lift of teaeheis' appointments that appeared in last evening's issue of the "Star." "Tlii.s is the second dip into the teachers' lucky hap:, and my name has not come up. 1 am still left in suspense us to where I will have to spend this year." "Ye«." remarked another student. "I suppose you will have to wait another fortnight now, iiiul it will run the time short to make arrangements about board and get your things together. It would l,e so much more convenient if the selection committee hurried up a little unci ended your suspense. They would have had to hurry if the schools had opened at the usual date, but knowing that owing to the infantile paralysis epidemic the holidays were- tv be extended, they have taken more time over the business, anil we poor students are left in a. state of uncertainty as to where we are to go." The rest of ihe conversation showed that the students did not so much mind going into the country provided that some chum was within distance of I'oing reacherl lor the week end. Young ladies particularly are naturally a little afraid of going away from home into a country district amongst strangers fur tin- first time, and if they find thai some friend is within easy reaching distance ihev are much happier. Hence the ilNgu.-t of those who in the sec,,n,l mouth of 'he year are .-till unaware of what their fate is to l,e. One energetic- young lady was heard to cypress the wish that some of the committee of selection had only two days' notice to lake up ;i station right ai the north of New Zealand wilh all arrangements us to hoard an(i lodging t,, make after reaching the place. It is quite evident that if the memhers of the selc-'ion committee w'lsh to heeome popular they will hurry up with the rest of the living of the stations for students, otherwise they may have to fa.-c an indignant deputation of young ladies with the \ erv important question of "Wheie am 1 going-'