SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18601, 28 January 1926, Page 7

SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

CONFERENCE AT DUNEDIN. (PKBSS ASSOCIATION TELEQBAM.) DUNEDIN, January 27. At the annual conference of delegates of school committees' associations in the South, Island the following remits were carried: —

That it was not desirable that employment by the Department of married women teachers, whose husbands were able to support them, be continued where or when other teachers are available far appointment. That the Department be asked to install, where necessary, up-to-date heating systems in schools, and to pay the whole cost. ,',',, j That the staffing of schools be based on the average roll number and not on the average attendance. That an effort be made to secure the standardisation of and cheaper school books. That, where more than two applicants Tor any one position are within five marks of each other, the names of all such applicants be sent on to the committees for selection. That, in the appointment of probationers Or student teachers, the senior inspector be requested to give consideration to the special requirements of the staffing of individual schools, in deciding whether such appointments he male or female.