INCIDENCE OF TRACHOMA
RISK TO SCHOOL TEACHERS Because of the incidence of trachoma in Maori districts and the continual risk of teachers contracting it. the Education Department was urged by the New Zealand Educational Institute in Christchurch yesterday to make a thorough investigation into the whole problem with a view to prevention of the disease. It was also asked that teachers should be compensated if they had the misfortune to contract it during their studies. The conference urged that appointments to the Native Schools inspectorate should be made from the ranks of suitably qualified teachers with adequate experience in Maori education and in the management of larger schools. . j- , ■ A remit from the Waiapu district was approved advocating the appointment of a trained ethnologist to the Native Schools’ branch. Conference agreed that no teachers in these schools should be expected to provide board in their own homes for assistant teachers, also that the Department should accept responsibility for the provision of suitable accommodation for the latter
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23948, 15 May 1943, Page 6
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