WORK FOR ALL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 32, 7 February 1934, Page 3

WORK FOR ALL.

"RATIONED" TEACHERS ADMINISTRATION OF SCHEME, BOARD TO EXERCISE CAKE. Of the 503 teachers In the Auckland education district who were unemployed when the new rationing scheme came into operation this year, 481 have been placed in positions. * There were 19 who did not require a position, and three who refused, contending that £00 per annum, less tax, in not sufficient _ to cover the cost of living. Thirty-eight were placed ill position*, on ordinary ■scale rates.

Several aspects of the scheme were dealt with in letters received from the Education Department and placed before the Auckland Education Board this morning. The Department said the rationing scheme was not intended to apply to those teachers who left the profession iu order to engage in sonic other occupation. When the scheme was granted tiie intention was to give employment only to those teachers whom the board employed under the scheme in 1933, with the addition of those students who left the Training College in December last, and a few ex-trainees who, for reasons of private study or domestic circumstances, refrained from asking for employment last year. The Department requested the board to exercise care to see that ex-students who left the service without any intention of returning to it do not now make use of this year's scheme as a means of securing employ men t. The Department also informed the board that rationing work was to be offered to all unemployed certificated teachers, whether they were ex-Training College students or otherwise. Teachers

dismissed from the service should not be granted litis privilege. In a third letter tnc Department stated that in the case of unemployed teachers, whom the board could ptace in a school where the payment of boarding allowance would not be necessary, asking for personal reasons to be appointed to another school, the request could be granted if the board considered it desirable to do so. However, if the request was granted, a boarding allowance would not be paid.