NO ACCOMMODATION

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23948, 15 May 1943, Page 2

NO ACCOMMODATION

TEACHERS IN COUNTRY DISTRICTS The difficulty of teachers in finding accommodation in country centres was emphasised at yesterday's sitting in Christchurch of the New Zealand Educational Institute. The case of Mr J. D L. Robb, an assistant teacher at the Huntly School, in the Waikato district, was given as an example. Mr Robb stated that he was asked £4 5s a day at a hotel in Huntly for board for himself, wife, and three children. There was no reduction, he was told, of the usual tariff of 17s 6d daily. . It was impossible, said the speaker, to obtain a house for some time, and with his family he rented a garage with a concrete floor, and meals were taken in an adjacent house. Eventually, he was able to secure a small railway cottage. Other speakers mentioned their difficulties, Some had had to buy houses. Others purchased sections and erected houses. One woman teacher bought a house, and then permitted two others, also women, to board with her. The conference passed a remit urging that the Government in its housing scheme should make adequate provision for houses and flats for teachers.