THE NEAREST ROUTE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 156, 5 July 1927, Page 10

THE NEAREST ROUTE.

ir DEPARTMENTAL EDICT. IE "~ I PROBATION ; TEACHERS if EXPENSES. is' — Jf: DEMAND FOR A REFUN D. Some of ■ the probation teachers in Auckland have come to the conclusion that the educational road is a hard road. and they view with misgivings and surprise a demand that travelling expenses paid to them during the past year should be refunded. "It is the result of departmental eeonomy and a matter that is entirely out of our own hands," said the chairman of the Auckland Education Board (Mr. A. Burns) this morning. He said that the decision would affect a nunibfer of ■tike "at." the AuckTan<i;.Traimng College, who had been paid: --travelling expenses when they travelled more than four miles—generally by bus or tram— to reach the college. The board .had honoured these claims for travelling expenses in all good faith, but now had come a departmental edict that the travelling had to be by the shortest possible route, a decision which, the chairman understood, would put many trainees but of court '..'.as lar as the Auckland 1 institution was concerned. ; *?Nbt as the "crow flies," said the chairmen, "but the new regulation, insists on the shortest route, which definitely precludes some of the tram routes which the teachers have travelled by. In the face of the department's decision the board, is now faced with the task of collecting amounts which the authorities in. Wellington contend trainees were not entitled to." Mr. B%rns said that, in accordance irith the policy of economy adopted by the department, the board was now compelled to place probation teachers at as near as possible _ to # .their homes. In the past, a probation teacher from the country may have been placed in a cfty 'scTibdV an*d"6*ne *ot)jWt*df*th<* new regulations was evidently to save thr boarding'allowance" that ha"d' fo'be'p'afd* Under the new regime probationer teach, ere would- receive their initial training near their homes, and later, when they entered the Auckland Training College tKey would have the opportunity of : ai tending classes at the Auckland University College. i In conclusion, Mr. Burns said that flip I ?C "Sulatiom in force all over ft "-" Dommon,. and the difficulties that 1 u^ fo lm(1 themtol vo, m faced V-' -r. to Air-kla- •!: i