EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7757, 10 January 1891, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

(PEKSS ASSOCIATION TELEaBAM.) AUCKLAND, January a The New Zealand Educational Institute to-day passed a resolution affirming the desirability of establishing a Teachers' Benefit Society. It was decided that the next meeting of the Council should be held at Christcburck on January sth, 1892. The officers elected for the ensuing term weru as follows:—President, Mr Scott, Christchurch; Secretary, Mr Worthington; Treasurer, Mr Grundy; special members of the Executive, Messrs White (Dunedin), McMorrau and Watson (Wellington). A vote of thank 3 was passed to the Minister of Education and the Secretary of the Department for their careful consideracion of the Institute's recommendations. The annual dinner will be held this evening.

• The Council of the Educational Institute have resolved to form a fund for the legal assistance of teachers who are members and who require help of that kind. The following resolution was also agreed to:—" That the attention of the Minister for Education be called to the alleged unnecessary multiplication of schools in several educational districts, to the withdrawal from the maintenance fund of large sums of money for school building purposes, and to the consequent hardship, to teachers in the serious diminution of salaries."

To-night the visiting members of the Council were entertained at dinner at Bobson's Eooms by the local branch of the Institute. Sir G. M. O'Borke presided.